Walker village

HER Number:
1411

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walker village

Place:
Walker

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Village

Site Type: Specific:
Shrunken Village

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A member of the 12th century barony of Merlay or Morpeth, it had 5 taxpayers in 1296, 7 in 1312, but only 2 in 1336. The actual settlement was clearly always small, and seems to have been reduced to a farm and some cottages by the mid 19th century (Old Walker). Newcastle Corporation bought the manor of Walker in the 18th century. In the 19th century the area became heavily industrialised, and the site of the old village covered with housing. Old Walker abutted the south side of the line of the Roman Wall and the east side of Scrogg Road. Maps from 1745 show the triangular "Town Green".

Easting:
284

Northing:
653

Grid Reference:
NZ284653

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1411 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Walker Township, Northumberland County History, XIII, 406, 435-441 J. Brand, 1789, Newcastle, II, 514 Tithe Awards, 1843, Walker, Northumberland Records Office, DT 469 S E. Mackenzie, 1825, Northumberland S. Wrathmell, Unpublished PhD thesis, II, 522- Northumberland Records Office (date unknown); Walker Estate, Northumberland Records Office, Watson Coll, 20a.1; T. Crawford, 1904, Notes on Walker; A.T. Croom, 2017. A History of Walker East Farm and Walker West Farm, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Arbeia Society Local History Notes no. 4.