Tyne and Wear HER(887): Whitburn common fields - Details
887
S Tyneside
Whitburn common fields
Whitburn
NZ36SE NZ46SW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Cultivation Marks
Broad Ridge and Furrow
Medieval
Earthwork
The names South, East and West Fields survive within the township of Whitburn on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey 6 inch map, and roughly correspond with the surviving traces of ridge and furrow. In East Field there is/was ridge and furrow on the rifle range, centred on NZ 410 627. In West Field certain and probable remains survive both north and south of Cleadon Lane. In South Field there are traces of ridge and furrow south-east of the village, south of Moor Lane and west of Sunderland Road.
40975
62690
NZ4097562690
<< HER 887 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham IV and VIII
Aerial Photograph, South Tyneside Planning Dept., 1981
Aerial Photograph, South Tyneside Planning Dept., Geonex 1991 - 1:5000, 141 91 293, 294, 297; The Arbeia Society, 2004, The Coast fromSouth Shields to Whitburn - Archaeology and History, pp 18-19; (1) Vertical aerial photograph reference number RAF CPE/UK/2352 2173 04-OCT-1947 (2) Vertical aerial photograph reference number RAF 58/B/40 5187 18-MAY-1948