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12309


N Tyneside


Longbenton, Hungeryere Fishery


Longbenton


NZ26SE


Agriculture and Subsistence


Fish Trap


Fish Weir


Medieval


C13


Documentary Evidence


Hungeryere in 1244. Probably means 'unprofitable weir'. Given to Newminster Abbey by Roger de Merlay.


29


64


NZ2964



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

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