Hedwin Streams, tide stone

HER Number:
1353

District:
Outside

Site Name:
Hedwin Streams, tide stone

Place:
Hedwin Streams

Map Sheet:
NZ16NW

Class:

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Tidal Stone

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
The site of this stone is in the township of Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, but is included here because it marks the "point which since 1292 at least has been the limit up stream of the port of Newcastle, extending from thence to Sparhawk at the mouth of the Tyne. Formerly this was the point to which the tide ascended … marked by a shallow rapid in the river called Hedwin Streams". Since the dredging of the river in the 19th century the rapid has disappeared and the tide rises as far as Wylam Bridge. The stone, an upright post, is set in concrete, and is carved with the Newcastle arms, of 3 castles.

Easting:
1423

Northing:
6546

Grid Reference:
NZ14236546

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1353 >> Northumberland County History, M.H. Dodds, 1930, Heddon-on-the-Wall Township XIII, 75 J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, II, pp. 8 et seq., 37, 557 Tyne and Wear Archives Service NCP - Hedwin Streams to Spar Hawk 4.86 Tyne and Wear Archives Service NCP - Spar Hawk to Hedwin Streams 5.4; Newburn History Trail, 1996, Newcastle City Council, p 12