Gateshead, Swalwell to Gateshead Road

HER Number:
4330

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Gateshead, Swalwell to Gateshead Road

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Road

Site Type: Specific:
Toll Road

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The road from Swalwell to Gateshead appears on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey as Low Team Turnpike, suggesting that it was a toll road. Its precise course is unclear at its western end.

Easting:
2482

Northing:
6237

Grid Reference:
NZ24826237

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4330 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6 I.M. Ayris, & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p.50