Newcastle, Magdalen's Well

HER Number:
1503

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Magdalen's Well

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Wake concluded Isaac Thompson's map of 1746 that there was a stream issuing from what appeared to be Magdalen's Well near Pandon Burn. There is no other evidence for a well so named.

Easting:
2500

Northing:
6490

Grid Reference:
NZ25006490

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1503 >> Isaac Thompson, 1746, Newcastle upon Tyne - Newcastle Library Local Studies T. Wake, 1937, Isaac Thompson's Plan of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1746, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, 117 M.H. Dodds, 1947, Additional Holy Wells of Northumberland and Durham,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, X (for 1942-46), 205