Runnymede

HER Number

6888

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Runnymede

Place

Westerhope

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Joseph Wakinshaw, estate founder and initiator of the Northern Allotment Society (see HER 6879), lived here until 1923. The house was then occupied by his brother William, a Methodist minister and temperence advocate. Despite opposition, it became a pub in 1938. This was replaced by a new public house also called Runnymede in 1964. Now the site of a supermarket.

Easting

419990

Northing

567200

Grid Reference

NZ419990567200

Sources

<< HER 6888 >> Ordnance Survey first edition map, 1850; J.T. Allison and A.D. Walton, 1989, Bygone Westerhope, 4; Bennison, B, 1998, Lost Weekends, A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 3, The West