Sunderland, Thrylstanhugh coal staith

HER Number:
75

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Thrylstanhugh coal staith

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Water Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Staith

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C15

Form of Evidence:
Documentary evidence

Description:
Early fifteenth century documents record that the Benedictine cell of Wearmouth received annual rent for a coal staith, presumably on the River Wear, called Thrylstanhugh. In the 1470s Michael Salter, and later William Lambton, were tenants of an unnamed coal staith, perhaps but not certainly that of Thrylstanhugh. It has been suggested that it was sited on the north bank of the river, between the then Sunderland Bridge on the east (sited by the Ordnance Survey at NZ 396 574), and Raven's Wheel on the west (sited by the Ordnance Survey at NZ 391 581 on the first edition 6 inches plan of 1862), where the river ran deepest.

Easting:
39380

Northing:
57476

Grid Reference:
NZ3938057476

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 75 >> Rev. J. Raine, 1854, The Inventories and Account Rolls of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Surtees Society,29, pp. 192-3, 212-15 J.W.Summers, 1858, History of Sunderland, pp. 295-7