Westerhope, Runnymede

HER Number:
6888

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Westerhope, Runnymede

Place:
Westerhope

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Joseph Wakinshaw, estate founder and initiator of the Northern Allotment Society (see HER 6879), lived here until 1923. The house was then occupied by his brother William, a Methodist minister and temperence advocate. Despite opposition, it became a pub in 1938. This was replaced by a new public house also called Runnymede in 1964. Now the site of a supermarket.

Easting:
1999

Northing:
6720

Grid Reference:
NZ19996720

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 6888 >> Ordnance Survey first edition map, 1850; J.T. Allison and A.D. Walton, 1989, Bygone Westerhope, 4; Bennison, B, 1998, Lost Weekends, A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 3, The West