Heworth, Hooch or Hooth Fishery

HER Number:
12260

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth, Hooch or Hooth Fishery

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Fish Trap

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Weir

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Hooch or Hooth in 1128, Hoch in 1195. 'hoh' is old English for a spur of land. This might be the same fishery as Ledynehughe of 1539, which lay near to Catdenburne. The name may be interpreted as 'Leodwine's hoh'. 'dyne' is old English for declivity. Belonged to the monks. 'Spur of the land with or at the steep slope'. 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}.

Easting:
28

Northing:
62

Grid Reference:
NZ2862

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61