Whickham, Dode Fishery

Dode in 1128 or Rote. This yair is probably the bishop's yair called 'Roti' or 'Rutyare' in the 1279 Assize Roll. 'Rutyare' in 1344. It had extended 20 fathoms beyond its due bounds in 1279. It is later described as possessing three 'heads' and as extending into the 'mid-water of Tyne'. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.