General Aylmer's Ropery
General Aylmer's Ropery
HER Number
5967
District
Sunderland
Site Name
General Aylmer's Ropery
Place
Ayres Quay
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Rope Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Ropery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Shown on Thomas Robson's maps of 1827 and 1844. By Ordnance Survey first edition in 1850 the site is occupied by glass works (HER 2807).
Easting
438900
Northing
557900
Grid Reference
NZ438900557900
Sources
<< HER 5967 >> T Robson, 1827, Plan of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth
T Robson, 1844, Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth
T Robson, 1844, Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth