Heworth, quarries

HER Number:
723

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth, quarries

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Stone Quarry

Site Type: Specific:
Sandstone Quarry

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14-C16

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
There are references to medieval stone quarries on Heworth Moor and at Over Heworth. In 1359-60 two men were given separate plots on the moor to quarry, one with 5 men and the other with 3. In 1371 Chilsid quarry is specifically named. In 1378 3 men took the quarry at the end of Upper Heworth for a year, to work it by 2 men with 2 picks. In 1580 Edward Thomson leased a stone quarry at Over Heworth and Ric. Bell and associates took a new quarry. There are also references to payment for the carriage of stone, including millstones, across Heworth land to the Tyne.

Easting:
28473

Northing:
61799

Grid Reference:
NZ2847361799

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 723 >> J. Booth, ed. 1889, Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society, 82, pp. 26, 105, 150, 223