Tyne and Wear HER(12321): Wallsend, Vthwardesyar' Fishery - Details
12321
N Tyneside
Wallsend, Vthwardesyar' Fishery
Wallsend
NZ36NW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Vthwardesyar' in 1128, Vtwordesiare in 1195, Vtwardis yare. 'Utweardes' is Old English for 'towards the outside'. The yare was thus either located mid-stream or was at the upper or lower boundary of the fishery. Owned by the Durham monks.
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656
NZ303656
V.E. Watts, 1988, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names III in Durham Archaeological Journal, 4, 1988, pp 53-59;