Closinghill (Clousden Hill) Quarry
Closinghill (Clousden Hill) Quarry
HER Number
1099
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Closinghill (Clousden Hill) Quarry
Place
Longbenton
Map Sheet
NZ27SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Mineral Extraction Site
Site Type: Specific
Quarry
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Closinghill Quarry. In use on the 1865 OS map (surveyed in 1858).
Marked "Disused" on 2nd edn OS mapping. The coloured version of the 1898 Northumberland LXXXIX.NW shows the quarry with water in it.
Newcastle and North Shields Curling Club played curling matches on this lake for a time in the 19th century (they also played at Percy Main, Fenham and Axwell Hall, before building an artificial pond at Pelaw in 1864.
The site is now known as 'The Park'.
Marked "Disused" on 2nd edn OS mapping. The coloured version of the 1898 Northumberland LXXXIX.NW shows the quarry with water in it.
Newcastle and North Shields Curling Club played curling matches on this lake for a time in the 19th century (they also played at Percy Main, Fenham and Axwell Hall, before building an artificial pond at Pelaw in 1864.
The site is now known as 'The Park'.
Easting
428280
Northing
570200
Grid Reference
NZ428280570200
Sources
<< HER 1099 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; W.G. Elliott, Bygone Days of Longenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor, Killingworth, Palmersville and Benton Square, Book 2, p 76; Newcastle Curling Club, Jubilee Banquet in The Newcastle Courant, Saturday February 25, 1893, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B92iT6R7LDN-Q254TGgtOFlZUVU/edit; https://sites.google.com/a/curlingplaces.info/cp3/places/4093-clousdon-hill-newcastle