Simonside village

HER Number:
182

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Simonside village

Place:
Simonside

Map Sheet:
NZ36SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Village

Site Type: Specific:
Shrunken village

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Symondsett (with Preston), property of the prior and convent of Durham, is first mentioned in a lease of 1260. By 1464 it was on its own, Preston having disappeared, and was paying a rent larger than some of its neighbours. In 1489 the priory's tenants of Southwick Fulwell, Wearmouth, Harton, Westoe, Monkton and Hedworth divided the territory of Simonside between them so that it ceased to exist as a township. Hodgson believed Simonside was the township and Preston the village within it. A number of sites called Simonside, including the hall which Hodgson believed to be the first enclosure of part of the common fields, existed into the 20th century. The parish was formed in 1875 and the church consecrated in 1880.

Easting:
34994

Northing:
64383

Grid Reference:
NZ3499464383

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 182 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1871, Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society, Vol. 58, pp.14&n,79,81,83,85,116&n,117n,208,309,329 Prior's Kitchen Durham, J. Mowbray, 1779, Simonside, CC 13654 1843, Simonside Lodge estate, D XP5 -Durham Records Office G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields pp.5&n,37,39,60&n,61,66,70,126,127,227,228,235,255,260,261 Whelan, 1894, Directory