Ouseburn Iron Works

HER Number:
5572

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Ouseburn Iron Works

Place:
Ouseburn

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Metal Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Iron Works

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. J. Spencer & Sons are listed as having a forge department on Foundry Lane in Ward's Directory of 1892. A locomotive was built here at the first Ouseburn foundry, Crowther's Ironworks, for the Lambton Wagonway in 1815.

Easting:
426280

Northing:
564460

Grid Reference:
NZ426280564460

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5572 >> Pers. Comm. M. Greatbatch, 2004, Ouseburn Heritage Officer