Gateshead, Oakwellgate, Bush Inn

HER Number:
7863

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Oakwellgate, Bush Inn

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Inn

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Tradition says that King Charles I stayed at the "Bush Inn" in Oakwellgate when passing through the town. In 1836 part of the inn was used as Gateshead's first town hall. The whole property later became tenements.

Easting:
255

Northing:
636

Grid Reference:
NZ255636

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town - From the earliest age to the mid Victorian, p 53