Tyne and Wear HER(75): Sunderland, Thrylstanhugh coal staith - Details
75
Sunderland
Sunderland, Thrylstanhugh coal staith
Sunderland
NZ35NE
Transport
Water Transport Site
Staith
Medieval
C15
Documentary evidence
Early fifteenth century documents record that the Benedictine cell of Wearmouth received annual rent for a coal staith, presumably on the River Wear, called Thrylstanhugh. In the 1470s Michael Salter, and later William Lambton, were tenants of an unnamed coal staith, perhaps but not certainly that of Thrylstanhugh. It has been suggested that it was sited on the north bank of the river, between the then Sunderland Bridge on the east (sited by the Ordnance Survey at NZ 396 574), and Raven's Wheel on the west (sited by the Ordnance Survey at NZ 391 581 on the first edition 6 inches plan of 1862), where the river ran deepest.
39380
57476
NZ3938057476
<< HER 75 >> Rev. J. Raine, 1854, The Inventories and Account Rolls of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Surtees Society,29, pp. 192-3, 212-15
J.W.Summers, 1858, History of Sunderland, pp. 295-7