Jockey Dike Nook, Battery

HER Number:
4418

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Jockey Dike Nook, Battery

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Battery

Site Type: Specific:
Battery

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1745 a battery of four guns was built on a stretch called Jockey Dike Nook. This battery washed away in 1780.

Easting:
441010

Northing:
557510

Grid Reference:
NZ441010557510

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4418 >> Clay, Miller & Milburn, 1984, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, p 37 G. McCombie, 1997, The Development of Sunderland Town Moor, p 15 J.W. Summers, 1858, The History of Sunderland, p 76-85