Heworth Manor

HER Number:
711

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth Manor

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Land Use Site

Site Type: Specific:
Manor

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Heworth was one of the manors of the Prior and Convent of Durham, but how they acquired it is unknown. The earliest known reference is from 1279 when it was leased out for 27 years, and was described as lying west of Colepath, from Heworth dam where Colepath begins, to the water of Tyne, with the Saltmeadows below the Haynyng. There are references to a tithe grange (1396), a grange (1401-68), and a bovaria (1344). Its location is unknown, but at least one modern researcher has equated it with Heworth Grange, shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map in the fork formed by the junction of the roads from Low Felling and High Felling (High Lane), today on the south side of the Felling Bypass and built over.

Easting:
294

Northing:
615

Grid Reference:
NZ294615

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 711 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1871, Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society, 58, p. 110n J. Fielding, 1980, A Study of the Buildings on the Bursar's Manors of Durham Cathedral Priory Durham University, Unpublished M.A. thesis, passim Prior's Kitchen Durham, Durham Dean and Chapter MSS, med. Bursar's account rolls Prior's Kitchen Durham, Durham Dean and Chapter MSS, Halmote Book, I, 29 Prior's Kitchen Durham, Church Commission, 1826, Heworth, 13630