Usworth, Usworth Common

HER Number:
2603

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Usworth, Usworth Common

Place:
Usworth

Map Sheet:
NZ25NE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Land Use Site

Site Type: Specific:
Common Land

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Usworth Common is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan to be sub-divided into many small, irregularly shaped areas. Two areas of past quarrying (HER refs. 2601 & 2602) are shown within the Common, but this pattern of sub-division may represent much earlier quarrying.

Easting:
2871

Northing:
5834

Grid Reference:
NZ28715834

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2603 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7