Rope Manufactory

HER Number

2380

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Rope Manufactory

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Ropery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey Map evidence shows the location of a Rope Manufactory on the east side of Fowler Street, South Shields.

Easting

436590

Northing

567260

Grid Reference

NZ436590567260

Sources

<< HER 2380 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4