Willington Quay, Cement Works

HER Number:
2209

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Willington Quay, Cement Works

Place:
Willington Quay

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Cement Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Cement Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Historic Ordnance Survey Map evidence shows a cement works at this location. The works were built in the 1880s on the site of the former Addison Potter's Firebrick Works (HER ref. 2105).

Easting:
3257

Northing:
6616

Grid Reference:
NZ32576616

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2209 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98, NW P J. Davidson, 1986, The Brickworks of the North East, p.60