Tynemouth, salt pans

HER Number:
736

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, salt pans

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Chemical Works

Site Type: Specific:
Salt Works

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C16

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
After its dissolution in 1539, the site, lands etc. of Tynemouth Priory were leased for 21 years to Sir Thomas Hilton. The property included "four Salt pannes, in the tenure of Thomas Johns, John Robinson, ... Wedell, widow, and William Davye, in Lez Shelths and in Tynemouth, which were in the occupation of the late Prior of the said late Monastery;...", though Hilton was not accountable for their rent of $10 13s 4d. There continued to be salt pans here into the post-medieval period, presumably located close to the river's edge.

Easting:
36649

Northing:
69008

Grid Reference:
NZ3664969008

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 736 >> W.S. Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth, I, 217-18 H.H.E. Craster, 1907, North Shields Township, Northumberland County History, VIII, 298-9, 306