Tyne and Wear HER(1762): Philadelphia, Bunker Hill Village - Details
1762
Sunderland
Philadelphia, Bunker Hill Village
Philadelphia
NZ35SW
Domestic
Village
Workers Village
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Bunker Hill is a colliery hamlet in the Newbottle township chiefly inhabited by the workmen employed in the adjoining collieries. The earliest reference so far found is on the map accompanying the Newbottle Tithe Award, 1839 (Durham Record Office D/X 755/7), where the owner is listed as David Nesham esq. and the occupier as the Earl of Durham. There are the remains of a farm on the east side of a north to south lane, comprised of brick buildings of the 19th century and 20th century. The only building which could be earlier is the remnant of a small stone structure with hipped pantile roof at the west end of the south range of the main farm complex. On the west side of the lane is a large open space surrounded by trees where there were formerly farm buildings here, including a gin gan. In addition there are traces of a demolished building south of the farm, including colliery offices, dismantled part of the Lambton Railway, disused brick sub-station and disused brick stables.
3308
5208
NZ33085208
<< HER 1762 >> I. Ayris & B. Harbottle, 1987, Philadelphia, Bunker Hill Farm
Whellan, 1856, Directory of Co. Durham
Whellan, 1865, Directory of Durham and Newcastle p 264
Whellan, 1894, Directory of Co. Durham p 827
Pers comm. B. Harbottle, 1987, Bunker Hill near Newbottle -Historic Environment Record