Gateshead, New Woolwich Iron Works

HER Number:
4400

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, New Woolwich Iron Works

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Metal Smelting Site

Site Type: Specific:
Iron Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
These Iron Works are described by Oliver in 1831 as conducted by Messrs. Wm. Hawkes, Senr. & Co. Records suggest they may have been built in 1819. Hawkes had other works at New Greenwich and New Deptford.

Easting:
2594

Northing:
6394

Grid Reference:
NZ25946394

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4400 >> T.Oliver, 1831, A Perambulatory Survey, in A picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp 137-138 F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, p 66-67