Ropery

HER Number

2589

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Ropery

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Rope Manufacturing site

Site Type: Specific

Ropery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A ropery, south-west of the Lawe. It is shown on a map of 1768, but the location is imprecise.

Easting

436500

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ436500568000

Sources

<< HER 2589 >> County Conservation Team, 1989, Simonside, South Shields, Copy of Richardson, 1768, Plan of.South Shields.. p.5