Tyne and Wear HER(1359): Benwell, quarry - Details
1359
Newcastle
Benwell, quarry
Benwell
NZ26NW
Industrial
Mineral Extraction Site
Sandstone Quarry
POST MEDIEVAL
Elizabethan 1558 to 1603
Documentary Evidence
A survey of Benwell in 1578/9 includes "a stone quarry in the tenure of Toddericke and others 20s". In 1608 it is described as, “A certain quarry of stones or slates, the ancient rent whereof was 20s …, but now the jury present that certain slaters of Newcastle work the same, but what rent they pay or how they hold the jury cannot tell". A possible site is that of the only quarry in Benwell shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey plan on both sides of the West Road west of Fox and Hounds Lane.
421000
565100
NZ421000565100
<< HER 1359 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1858, 6 inch scale, sheet XCVII
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Benwell Township, Northumberland County History, XIII, 228-29