Dinnington, Moory Spot

HER Number:
7728

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Dinnington, Moory Spot

Place:
Dinnington

Map Sheet:
NZ27SW

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Farm

Site Type: Specific:
Farmstead

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Moory Spot is a farm complex which dates to at least 1820 as it is labelled on Greenwoods Plan of Northumberland and is shown in detail on a Plan of Dinnington c.1820. The first edition plan shown is as comprising buildings arranged around a central yard, with attached paddocks and a circular engine house for a horse-driven threshing machine attached to the rear of the west side building, presumably the threshing barn. It appears with extensions on the 2nd edition Ordnance survey plan of c.1898.

Easting:
1992

Northing:
7301

Grid Reference:
NZ19927301

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
1st edition Ordnance Survey map, surveyed c.1855. 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, surveyed c.1898; Plan of the Township of Dinnington c.1820 (NRO 00309/M/40)