Ryton, stocks

HER Number:
621

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton, stocks

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Civil

Site Type: Broad:
Punishment Place

Site Type: Specific:
Stocks

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
There is a 19th century record of the remains of the village stocks, which stood at one time near the Cross, surviving near to the door leading from the rectory. W.A.Cocks told the Ordnance Survey in 1952 that he remembered seeing stocks near the Rectory when he was a boy.

Easting:
152

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ152647

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 621 >> W. Bourn, 1896, History of the Parish of Ryton, p. 26 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Stocks (site)