Erick Burn

HER Number

11107

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Erick Burn

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad

Watercourse

Site Type: Specific

Stream

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Natural Feature

Description

Rises just north of Northumberland Road, runs east of and parallel with Northumberland Street and Pilgrim Street until it turns east at City Road to join Pandon Burn. Means stream with an island. Ayrykborne (1322), Arikburn (1466), Ayrekburn (1518). Culverted by 1733. In order to build Dean Street the valley had to be infilled with bricks, clay, stone and rubbish on top of the culvert. At the junction of Dean Street and Mosley Street over 30 feet of fill was dumped.

Easting

424950

Northing

564790

Grid Reference

NZ424950564790

Sources

Map of courses of old burns and streams in Newcastle, undated but post 1928 as Tyne Bridge is shown, School of Architecture Library; S.J. Kirkby, Newcastle's Hidden Rivers in M. Barke and R.J. Buswell (ed), 1980, Historical Atlas of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp 6-7