Wallsend, Bondewyar fishery

HER Number:
12292

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Bondewyar fishery

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

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:
Bondewyar in 1128, Bondeniare in 1195, yare c.1225, Bondewe yare. 'Bonda' is Old English for a peasant landowner. This was a weir or yare belonging to the monks of Durham in Wallsend.

Easting:
306

Northing:
658

Grid Reference:
NZ306658

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
V.E. Watts, 1988, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names III in Durham Archaeological Journal, 4, 1988, pp 53-59