East Rainton, Rainton Bridge Farm

HER Number:
15721

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
East Rainton, Rainton Bridge Farm

Place:
East Rainton

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Farm

Site Type: Specific:
Farmstead

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Rainton Bridge Farm has been farmed by the Bailey family for generations. The building containing the village communal oven became the boiler house at the farm. It once had racing stables. Only working farm in East Rainton.

Easting:
3368

Northing:
4791

Grid Reference:
NZ33684791

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Ordnance Survey First Edition Map 1858; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas p566; Tyne and Wear Museums, 2009, Rainton Bridge Farm, East Rainton, Sunderland - Archaeological Assessment