Mathew Walters Ropery
Mathew Walters Ropery
HER Number
4566
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Mathew Walters Ropery
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Rope Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Ropery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
This ropery is shown on a 1757 map of North Shields lying behind Low Street. It is called Mathew Walter's ropery on Fryer's 1772 map and may also be marked in a shortened form on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan of the area.
Easting
435620
Northing
568100
Grid Reference
NZ435620568100
Sources
<< HER 4566 >> J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth
1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89
1757, Map of North Shields
J. Fryer, 1772, A Plan of the Low Part of the River Tyne
J. Fryer, 1772, A Plan of the Low Part of the River Tyne
1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89
1757, Map of North Shields
J. Fryer, 1772, A Plan of the Low Part of the River Tyne
J. Fryer, 1772, A Plan of the Low Part of the River Tyne