Tyne and Wear HER(5859): Monkseaton, saw pit - Details
5859
N Tyneside
Monkseaton, saw pit
Monkseaton
NZ37SW
Industrial
Timber Processing Site
Saw Pit
Post Medieval
Documentary Evidence
Tomlinson describes a plain-fronted stone house built in the early 19th century by Robert Lyon on the site of an old saw pit. This industrial part of Monkseaton village, combrising of whitewashed cottages and the Seven Stars Inn, set back from Front Street, was called The Fold or Fau'd. Other small-scale industry in The Fold included a skinnery, tin worker, cooper and umbrella repairer. Robert Lyons house is shown on map of 1833, the tithe map of 1845 and the Ordnance Survey first and second editions. By the third edition it had been rebuilt or divided into two. As the saw pit was already described as "old" at the beginning of the 19th century, it could potentially have early originals, maybe even the medieval period.
3430
7197
NZ34307197
<< HER 5859 >> 1833, Map of Monkseaton, Northumberland Records Office, ZHE 63/23
M. Snape, Tyne and Wear Museums, 2004, 88-90 Front Street, Monkseaton, Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, Archaeological Assessment, p 12
P. Johnson, 1993, In the footsteps of Tomlinson, unpublished dissertation
W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton, pp 56-58