Dunston village

HER Number

1635

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Dunston village

Place

Dunston

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Village

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Evidence of the old riverside village settlement remains in the form of a terrace of small shops and chandlers and other buildings {1}. Described by Whelan in 1856 as a village on the River Team, where there were several coal staiths. There were chapels belonging to the Primitive, Wesleyan and New Connexion Methodists. There was a National School and a Mechanics Institute.

Easting

423300

Northing

562600

Grid Reference

NZ423300562600

Sources

<< HER 1635 >> Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1978, Dunston and Swalwell Plan Area; William Whelan & Co, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham