Tyne and Wear HER(788): Weetslade tower - Details
788
N Tyneside
Weetslade tower
Weetslade
NZ27SE
Defence
Fortified House
Tower House
Medieval
C15
Documentary Evidence
The 1415 list of castles and fortalices in Northumberland includes "turris de Wittslad iuxt mare". Bates located this at Weetslade in Long Benton parish, but Dodds objected on the grounds that Weetslade is not by the sea. There is no further information.
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73618
NZ2612673618
<< HER 788 >> C.J. Bates, 1891, The Border Holds of Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XIV, p. 19 and map opp. p. 14
R.N. Hadcock, 1939, A Map of Medieval Northumberland and Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XVI, 176
M.H. Dodds, ed. 1930, Weetslade Township, Northumberland County History, XIII, 430