Newburn, Woode Close

HER Number:
15504

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newburn, Woode Close

Place:
Newburn

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE NZ16SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Managed Woodland

Site Type: Specific:
Wood

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Mayson's survey of Newburn Manor in 1613 records that 'there are no woods or underwoods of any value nowe left within Newburn manor for that they have been greatly wasted and destroyed by James Cole and others for making of steythes and timbering of cole pitts'. 'Back of Wood' and 'Woode Close' are shown on a plan of 1620. The wood would have been planted with native trees such as ash, maple, hazel, lime, elm, birch, alder, sallow, oak and hawthorn. Woods had names because they were valuable property. The boundaries of the wood were probably defined by a bank and ditch with a hedge or fence to prevent encroachment and keep out livestock which would eat young shoots. Today the Wood is gone.

Easting:
1741

Northing:
6511

Grid Reference:
NZ17416511

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
A Plan of the manor of Newburn, 1620, Alnwick Castle Archives, Class O, div. xvii, No. 1; O Rackham, 1986, The history of the countryside - the classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna, pp 64, 82, 86; Jennifer Morrison, 2007, Newburn Manor - an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle upon Tyne, unpublished MA thesis, University of Durham, pp 124-125; Mayson's Survey, 1613, Alnwick Castle Archives A/iv/2