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1559


Newcastle


Newcastle town wall, Pandon Burn culvert


Newcastle


NZ26SE


Defence


Town Defences


Town Wall


MEDIEVAL


Medieval 1066 to 1540


Demolished Building


In the stretch of curtain between Corner Tower and Pandon Gate there "was a segmentally arched opening through the wall, allowing a passage for the Pandon stream, the opening of which was ten feet wide and eight feet six inches in depth from the springing of the arch...". This section of the town wall was demolished in 1881 for the making of City Road.


425370


564150


NZ425370564150



<< HER 1559 >> G.B. Richardson, 19th century, The Walls of Newcastle, 200 -Newcastle University Library Unpublished MS S. Holmes, 1896, The Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 23

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