Tyne and Wear HER(1711): Monkwearmouth, Cornhill Dock - Details
1711
Sunderland
Monkwearmouth, Cornhill Dock
Monkwearmouth
NZ35NE
Maritime
Dock and Harbour Installation
Dock
Early Modern
C19?
Structure
An early dry dock with timber sides and gates; the latter with wrought-iron metalwork. Its construction is similar to the dock below Wearmouth Bridge (HER ref. 2754) - mostly lined in wood. The gates, which were recently still intact though badly rotted, originally opened by winch and chain, and are known as 'Cornhill Patent'. The dock is abandoned.
388
583
NZ388583
<< HER 1711 >> Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1978, Sites of interest in River Wear plan area
Joint Conservation Team, Industrial Archaeology Cards