North Shields, Ropery

HER Number

2017

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

North Shields, Ropery

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Ropery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A Ropery, probably out of use by 1894/5 when the site was partly occupied by a Gas Works (HER ref. 2133). The length of the site was approximately 400 yards.

Easting

434860

Northing

567660

Grid Reference

NZ434860567660

Sources

<< HER 2017 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89