Coney Warren, Battery
Coney Warren, Battery
HER Number
4416
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Coney Warren, Battery
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Battery
Site Type: Specific
Battery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
In 1783 a walled battery with six guns was built on the Coney Warren near to present day Barrack Street. Much of this was eventually washed away and the rest was demolished by the Sunderland Dock Company in 1848.
Easting
441020
Northing
557770
Grid Reference
NZ441020557770
Sources
<< HER 4416 >> J. Rain, 1785, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth
Clay, Miller & Milburn, 1984, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, p 37
G. McCombie, 1997, The Development of Sunderland Town Moor, p 15
J.W. Summers, 1858, The History of Sunderland, p 76-85
Clay, Miller & Milburn, 1984, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, p 37
G. McCombie, 1997, The Development of Sunderland Town Moor, p 15
J.W. Summers, 1858, The History of Sunderland, p 76-85