Westoe, Hebear Fishery

HER Number

12243

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Westoe, Hebear Fishery

Place

Westoe

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Fishing Site

Site Type: Specific

Fish Weir

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Hebear in 1128, Hebbeiare before 1195, Ebbe yare, Ebyare 1430, 1438-9. One of the monks fisheries. 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}.

Easting

435000

Northing

566000

Grid Reference

NZ435000566000

Sources

Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61