Billy Mill, Rifle Range

HER Number:
2122

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Billy Mill, Rifle Range

Place:
Billy Mill

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Military Training Site

Site Type: Specific:
Firing Range

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Historic Ordnance Survey Map evidence shows the location of a Rifle Range within the disused Billy Mill Quarry (HER ref. 2003). The range is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan and was therefore installed after 1858.

Easting:
3357

Northing:
6927

Grid Reference:
NZ33576927

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2122 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SE; English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405880; Ordnance Survey Map County of Northumberland 1:2500, 1897 and 1:10560, 1938