Blaydon Burn, Old Quarry

HER Number

1642

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Blaydon Burn, Old Quarry

Place

Blaydon Burn

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Marked on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Probable that it was being worked for building stone and related to the development of industrial premises in this part of the Burn in the first half of the nineteenth century. There are surviving traces of terracing on the valley side, and some probable quarry waste.

Easting

1676

Northing

6228

Grid Reference

NZ16766228

Sources

<< HER 1642 >> 1975, Blaydon Burn, Industrial Archaeology -Historic Environment