Nether Heworth, Le Holle Fishery
Nether Heworth, Le Holle Fishery
HER Number
12261
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Nether Heworth, Le Holle Fishery
Place
Heworth
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
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
Le Holle in 1539. In Old English 'hol' means a deep place in a steam'. Below Haining in Nether Heworth. 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
428000
Northing
562000
Grid Reference
NZ428000562000
Sources
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61