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16361


Gateshead


Fugar, Watergate


Fugar House


NZ26SW


Domestic


Dwelling


House


Post Medieval


C18


Demolished Building


Tiny cottage. In 1719 Cuthbert Newton lived here. In 1841 Catherine Hutchison and her daughter lived there. Catherine died in 1866 aged 90. The cottage was demolished by 1894. The site was buried under spoil from Watergate Pit. The site was reclaimed in 1993. It was opencast in 1995. A water gate, or flood gate, is used to stop a flow of water.


2245


6007


NZ22456007



Ordnance Survey first edition 1858; Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Streetgate, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/streetgate

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