Sunderland, Fish Market

HER Number:
4413

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Fish Market

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Market

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Market

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
On Rain's Eye Plan on the Quay side. The 'Commonty' between the High Street and the river in Low Street was used for drying fish. Lawrence Leavebetter owned stone tanks there, used to keep mussels for fish bait. Excavations by Northern Archaeological Associates in 2004 at 172-180 High Street East recorded a stone structure, possibly a stone mussel tank.The land had once been owned by the Chantry of the Virgin Mary at Bishopwearmouth Church, but James I passed it into private ownership. Eventually George Lilburne built a large house on it. Fish was probably thereafter dried on the town moor.

Easting:
4054

Northing:
5755

Grid Reference:
NZ40545755

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4413 >> J. Rain, 1785, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth; M.M. Meikle and C.M. Newman, 2007, Sunderland and its Origins - monks to mariners, pp 107-108