Tyne and Wear HER(6590): Newcastle, Sandhill, weigh house - Details
6590
Newcastle
Newcastle, Sandhill, weigh house
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Transport
Weigh House
Medieval
Documentary Evidence
Under the town court (guildhall) was the weigh-house where the Clerk of the Chamber and the Chamberlain received taxes for coal, salt, ballast grinding stones etc.
2520
6383
NZ25206383
H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 125.