South Shields, Lawe Bank, battery

HER Number:
950

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Lawe Bank, battery

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Fortification

Site Type: Specific:
Gun Emplacement

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A writer in 1826 says: 'On the Lawe Bank facing the sea is a guard-house and battery of four guns..., Soon after the close of the last war (that is, the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo) the guns were removed from this battery to Tynemouth on the opposite side of the river.

Easting:
365

Northing:
681

Grid Reference:
NZ365681

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 950 >> Parsons & White, 1827, History and Gazetteer of Durham and Northumberland, 1, 277 G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p. 86 W. Brockie, 1851, History of South Shields, p 68-70 W. Brockie, 1851, History of South Shields, p 68-70