Erick Burn

HER Number:
11107

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Erick Burn

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW NZ26SE

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

Lats/Lons:

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