Walbottle, enclosure period road

HER Number

11559

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Walbottle, enclosure period road

Place

Walbottle

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Road

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

'Newburne, Walbottle and Butterlaw Comon' was enclosed between 1620 and 1767 and two new farms were built (Fell House and Coally Hills) in the new fields. A new road was built west-east across the former moor to serve these farms. This still survives as a trackway.

Easting

417506

Northing

567708

Grid Reference

NZ417506567708

Sources

A plan of the manor of Newburn, 1620, Alnwick Castle Archives Class O, Div. xvii, No. 1; I. Thompson, 1767, A plan of the Lordship of Newburn belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Northumberland Museum and Archives (Woodhorn) Sant/Beq/9/1/1/24 and 25; Jennifer Morrison, 2007, Newburn manor - an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol 1, p 68 (unpublished MA thesis, Durham University)