Newburn, Jacks Cross

HER Number:
1310

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newburn, Jacks Cross

Place:
Newburn

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE NZ16NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Cross

Site Type: Specific:
Boundary Cross

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The description of the boundaries of Newburn manor in 1613 included a reference to "a certen wood crosse called Jacks Crosse in the way leading from Newborne to Newcastle...". Its site must have been somewhere on the road along the river and was presumably of medieval date.

Easting:
17082

Northing:
65182

Grid Reference:
NZ1708265182

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1310 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Newburn and Newburn Hall Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, 136