Newbottle Pottery Warehouse

Newbottle Pottery Warehouse

HER Number
4408
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Newbottle Pottery Warehouse
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Pottery Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Pottery Works
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Barker suggests that Newbottle Pottery was founded circa 1720 and was known as "High Newbottle". Its location was in Pottery Yard behind Dial House, but it closed in 1878 and the site has since been built over.
Easting
4029
Northing
5732
Grid Reference
NZ40295732
Sources
<< HER 4408 >> J. Rain, 1785, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth
G.W. Ball, 1906, Potteries of Sunderland, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 7 p 36