Heworth Common Pottery

HER Number:
8489

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth Common Pottery

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Pottery Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Pottery Works

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1759 and 1760 the Heworth Common Pottery was making Tortoise-shell, Agatestone and Black ware. Possibly owned by Robert Callendar of Newcastle.

Easting:
29

Northing:
61

Grid Reference:
NZ2961

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
F. Buckley, 1927, Potteries on the Tyne and Other Northern Potteries during the C18, Archaeologia Aeliana, series 4, Vol 4, pp 68-82