Gateshead, medieval bakehouses

HER Number:
5640

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, medieval bakehouses

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Bakehouse

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The Boldon Book of 1183 (a survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset) describes Gateshead as having mills, fisheries and bakehouses, with surrounding arable land. Cereals were obviously brought into Gateshead from the surrounding countryside and the town was, like Durham and Darlington, a milling and baking centre for the bishopric. The specific locations of the bakehouses are not known.

Easting:
25

Northing:
63

Grid Reference:
NZ2563

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5640 >> 1183, Boldon Book D. Austin, (ed) 1982, The Boldon Book, Northumberland and Durham, p 11; F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, pp 4 and 7-8