Southwick, Wear Pottery

HER Number:
2759

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Southwick, Wear Pottery

Place:
Southwick

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Pottery Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Pottery Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The Wear Pottery, at Southwick, was also known as Southwick Union or Moore's Pottery and was working from 1753 to 1882.

Easting:
3844

Northing:
5821

Grid Reference:
NZ38445821

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2759 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8 N.T. Sinclair in Milburn & Miller, (eds) 1988, Sunderland, River, Town & People, Industry to 1914, p.24