Tyne and Wear HER(7761): Killingworth Racecourse at Scaffold Hill - Details
7761
N Tyneside
Killingworth Racecourse at Scaffold Hill
Killingworth
NZ36NW
Recreational
Racing Sports Site
Racecourse
Post Medieval
C17-C18
Documentary Evidence
The place-name Scaffold Hill is derived from the stands used for spectators at Newcastle races, which were held on Killingworth Moor in the 17th and 18th centuries. The first record of racing there is from 1632 when the Newcastle Corporation paid £20 for 'two silver potts' to be raced for on Killingworth Moor. Racing continued there until the end of the 18th century.
3042
6982
NZ30426982
Enclosure Awards, 1793, Killingworth Moor, Northumberland Records Office, QRA 35.
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Killingworth Township, Northumberland County History, XIII, 418, 421.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1917, Newcastle Races, 3, VII (for 1915-16), 245-47; Pearson, Lynn, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 11