Gateshead, South Shore, ropewalk

Tyne and Wear HER(5650): Gateshead, South Shore, ropewalk - Details

HER Number:
5650

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, South Shore, ropewalk

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Ropewalk

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
George Wray, brick maker on South Shore, also owned a ropewalk in 1771.

Easting:
26

Northing:
63

Grid Reference:
NZ2663

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5650 >> F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, p 78