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12323


N Tyneside


Wallsend, Wales yar' Fishery


Wallsend


NZ36NW


Agriculture and Subsistence


Fish Trap


Fish Weir


Medieval


C12


Documentary Evidence


Wales yar' in 1128, Wales yare, Wallesiare in 1195, Walleyair 1439-40. Means either yair by the Roman wall or just Wallsend yair. Owned by the monks of Durham.


304


657


NZ304657



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

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