South Shore, ropewalk

HER Number

5650

District

Gateshead

Site Name

South Shore, ropewalk

Place

Gateshead

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Rope Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Ropewalk

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

George Wray, brick maker on South Shore, also owned a ropewalk in 1771.

Easting

426000

Northing

563000

Grid Reference

NZ426000563000

Sources

<< HER 5650 >> F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, p 78