Elswick, Rope Walk

HER Number:
4905

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Elswick, Rope Walk

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Ropewalk

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
An open rope walk is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1859, but not on the 2nd edition 1894 map, when it had been built over by a school and a number of other unidentified buildings, probably industrial in nature. It is not shown on an 1849 map of the area, however, and is unlikely to have consisted of any substantial structures.

Easting:
2413

Northing:
6309

Grid Reference:
NZ24136309

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4905 >> Northern Archaeological Associates, 2000, Elswick Lead Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Assessment