Gosforth Tileworks

HER Number

4003

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Gosforth Tileworks

Place

East Brunton

Map Sheet

NZ27SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Brick and Tilemaking Site

Site Type: Specific

Tile Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Gosforth Tileworks is marked as ‘Disused’ on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, indicating that it was probably out of use by 1895. The British Geological Survey marks two small old clay pits in weathered boulder clay in the immediate vicinity of the tileworks.

Easting

423720

Northing

571930

Grid Reference

NZ423720571930

Sources

<< HER 4003 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 88