Newcastle, Pandon, Wall Knoll

HER Number:
6567

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Pandon, Wall Knoll

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Road

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The medieval layout of Pandon is not clear but it is certain that one street ran south from the bridge end before dividing into two along the lower slopes and foot of Wallknoll - the upper one was just called Wallknoll on maps of the 18th century and 19th century, and has now disappeared. It was referred to in 1298-1300 as "the highway on le Wallknoll on the south side of the Carmelites". Bourne suggested that the name referred to Hadrian's Wall. At the upper end of Wall Knoll was the Carmelite Friary (HER 1425). On 12 August 1339 a flood broke down six perches of the town wall near Wallknoll.

Easting:
2538

Northing:
6409

Grid Reference:
NZ25386409

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
H. Bourne, 1736, History of Newcastle, p 139-42; B. Harbottle and P. Clack, 1976, Newcastle upon Tyne: Archaeology and Development, in D.W. Harding (ed), 1976, Archaeology in the North; W. Gray, 1649, Chorographia; R. Welford, 1909, Local Muniments, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, (1909), p 60; S. Holmes, 1896, The Walls of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 2, Vol XVIII, pp 1-25, H. Maxwell (ed), 1913, Chronicle of Lanercost Priory, Ballantyne Club.