Tyne and Wear HER(290): Gateshead, Bishop's Park - Details
290
Gateshead
Gateshead, Bishop's Park
Gateshead
NZ26SE
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Park
Deer Park
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
In the late 12th century Bishop Puiset gave certain rights in the forest of Gateshead to the burgesses of Gateshead, the bishops having hunted there in the 12th and 13th centuries. The bishop's park covered the whole of the east half of Gateshead, roughly within the area bounded by High Street, Sunderland Road and Felling, and was enclosed by a bank and ditch. As time passed it was used less, and decreased in size. Around the late 13th century Claxton's and Friar's Goose Estates were carved out of the park to provide a rental for the Hospital of St. Edmund King and Martyr; and in 1554 the Saltmeadows estate was leased to Newcastle Corporation. What remained became the demesne land of the manor of Gateshead.
2680
6300
NZ26806300
<< HER 290 >> W. Hutchinson, 1787, History of...Durham, II, pp. 454, 461
W. Greenwell, ed. 1857, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 88
F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, pp. 2, 6-7, 129-130
R. Surtees, 1820, History of...Durham, II, pp. 107-8