Newcastle, Sandhill, weigh house

HER Number:
6590

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Sandhill, weigh house

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Weigh House

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Under the town court (guildhall) was the weigh-house where the Clerk of the Chamber and the Chamberlain received taxes for coal, salt, ballast grinding stones etc.

Easting:
2520

Northing:
6383

Grid Reference:
NZ25206383

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 125.