Tyne and Wear HER(12302): Byker, Dent's Hole fishery - Details
12302
Newcastle
Byker, Dent's Hole fishery
Byker
NZ26SE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Post Medieval
C17
Documentary Evidence
Dent's Hole was a deep pool in the Tyne west of St. Peter's Quay. It was named after the Bent family in the C17. The salmon fishery was still working, though depleted in 1885. 'Hol' is Old English for 'a deep place in a stream'.
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635
NZ277635
V.E. Watts, 1988, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names III in Durham Archaeological Journal, 4, 1988, pp 53-59; M.H. Dodds, 1930, A History of Northumberland, Vol. XIII, pp. 274-7; R.J. Charleton, 1885, Newcastle Town, p 342