Marsden, post office

HER Number

6809

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Marsden, post office

Place

Marsden

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

Class

Communications

Site Type: Broad

Postal System Structure

Site Type: Specific

Post Office

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Ruined Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey 2nd edition of 1890. The whole village has been levelled and only an occasional cropmark of the demolished buildings may be seen through the grass. The post office is a ruin opposite the lighthouse.

Easting

440610

Northing

564270

Grid Reference

NZ440610564270

Sources

<< HER 6809 >> The Arbeia Society, 2004, The Coast from South Shields to Whitburn, pp 22-23; South Tyneside Libraries, 1991, Pictures of Old Marsden - the Village that Vanished