Jacks Cross

HER Number

1310

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Jacks Cross

Place

Newburn

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Cross

Site Type: Specific

Boundary Cross

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The description of the boundaries of Newburn manor in 1613 included a reference to "a certen wood crosse called Jacks Crosse in the way leading from Newborne to Newcastle...". Its site must have been somewhere on the road along the river and was presumably of medieval date.

Easting

417082

Northing

565182

Grid Reference

NZ417082565182

Sources

<< HER 1310 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Newburn and Newburn Hall Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, 136