Whickham, hurl hames yar' Fishery

HER Number:
12264

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Whickham, hurl hames yar' Fishery

Place:
Whickham

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Fish Trap

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Weir

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12-C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Hurl.hames yar in 1128, hurl homes yare, hurlhomes yare. 'Hurl' may be compared with The Hurle in Wolviston of unknown meaning. 'Hame' or 'home' looks like Old English 'hamm' meaning an enclosure, meadow or water-meadow. Owned by the bishop of Durham. 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:
194

Northing:
639

Grid Reference:
NZ194639

Lats/Lons:

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