Tyne and Wear HER(12259): Westoe, Sancte Hildear' Fishery - Details
12259
S Tyneside
Westoe, Sancte Hildear' Fishery
Westoe
NZ36NE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Sancte Hildear in 1128, Hildeiare in 1195, Sancte Hilde yare. From the personal name Hild or Hilde. One of the monks' weirs, presumably belonging to the chapel of St. Hild. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.
35
66
NZ3566
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61