Blaydon Burn, Old Quarry

HER Number:
1642

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blaydon Burn, Old Quarry

Place:
Blaydon Burn

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Stone Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific:
Quarry

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Marked on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Probable that it was being worked for building stone and related to the development of industrial premises in this part of the Burn in the first half of the nineteenth century. There are surviving traces of terracing on the valley side, and some probable quarry waste.

Easting:
1676

Northing:
6228

Grid Reference:
NZ16766228

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1642 >> 1975, Blaydon Burn, Industrial Archaeology -Historic Environment