Tyne and Wear HER(48): Fulwell village - Details
48
Sunderland
Fulwell village
Fulwell
NZ35NE
Domestic
Settlement
Village
Medieval
C13
Documentary Evidence
The earliest documentary reference appears to be 1204, the date of John's confirmation of the possessions of Durham. The vill appears in a rental document of 1345-6 when it contained 7 tofts and 2 cottages; through other documents it is known that in 1347-8 it owed tithes to Wearmouth, in 1369 the tenants were ordered to use Southwick mill, and in 1539-5 and 1580 there is mention of the great barn. Historic maps suggest the village had once taken the form of two rows with a green, but had perhaps shrunk by the late 18th century. It lay on both sides of what is now called Station Road connecting the present Sunderland-Cleadon road on the west with Fulwell Lane (Road) and Dene Lane on the east.
396
596
NZ396596
<< HER 48 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1871, Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis,Surtees Society, Vol. 58, pp. lxxxiii, 94, 311
Prior's Kitchen Durham Durham Dean and Chapter MSS, med. Bursar's rental
W.H.D. Longstaffe & J. Booth, eds. 1889, Durham Halmote Rolls, Surtees Society, I, Vol. 82, passim
Prior's Kitchen Durham Church Commission, 1779, Monkwearmouth, Southwick and Fulwell, C.C. nos. 13654-5
Sunderland Museum - 1746, Land at Fulwell
Sunderland Museum - 1790, Mr. Rob. Atkinson's estate of Fulwell
Sunderland Museum - 1830, Mansion and Windmill Estates
Dept. Pal. & Dip. Durham Tithe Maps, 1840, Fulwell
Sunderland Museum - 1842, Land at Fulwell
Dept. Pal. & Dip. Durham 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1:2,500 scale, Durham viii.6
W. Hutchinson, 1787, History of...Durham, Vol. II, p. 636
R. Surtees, 1820, History of Durham, Vol. II, pp. 12-13
B.K. Roberts & D. Austin, 1975, A Preliminary Check-List of Rural Clusters in County Durham, p. 34
Rev. J. Raine, 1854, The Inventories and Account Rolls of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Surtees Society, 29, pp. 196, 198; Whellan, W, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham