West Boldon, Fatherless Field (Elliscope) Farm

HER Number:
960

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
West Boldon, Fatherless Field (Elliscope) Farm

Place:
West Boldon

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Land Use Site

Site Type: Specific:
Farm

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In bishop Bury's time (1340s)... Allan Gategant held certain lands there (West Boldon) called Fadreless Houses, held in capite by homage and fealty. Surtees also noted this, saying another small freehold, a messuage and carucate of land on Boldon moor, called Faderles House, passed for a few descents in the family of Gategang. By 1381 it was held by Peter del Hay, Faderlesfield, of 46 acres, for 20s or 26s 10d. Called Fatherless Field on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, it is now Elliscope farm.

Easting:
3350

Northing:
5990

Grid Reference:
NZ33505990

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 960 >> W. Greenwell, 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, pp. 98-102 W. Hutchinson, 1787, History...of Durham, II, 495 and ?620-4 R. Surtees, 1820, History...of Durham, II, 59; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2014, Site south of Newcastle Road (A184) and West of A19 - Archaeological Assessment