Union Workhouse

HER Number

11776

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Union Workhouse

Place

Bensham

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad

Workhouse

Site Type: Specific

Workhouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Union workhouse, built 1840-1.

Easting

425070

Northing

562330

Grid Reference

NZ425070562330

Sources

Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 203