Tyne and Wear HER(12323): Wallsend, Wales yar' Fishery - Details
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.
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657
NZ304657
V.E. Watts, 1988, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names III in Durham Archaeological Journal, 4, 1988, pp 53-59;