Milk Market
Milk Market
HER Number
7699
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Milk Market
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Market
Site Type: Specific
Market
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Where the locals bought their milk and meat at a daily market. Where the locals bought their milk and meat at a daily market. A large open space at the western end of Sandgate. A market keeper was appointed by the Corporation in 1717. Knowles and Boyle record that the late nineteenth century market here, held on a Saturday, was for the sale of various goods including old clothing, tools and 'remnants of mercery'. The houses on the east side of the Milk Market were known as 'Folly' named after the exploits of a Captain Cuthbert Dykes, post-master and town surveyor, who built a water-engine here in 1681 to supply the lower parts of the town with water.
Easting
425570
Northing
564040
Grid Reference
NZ425570564040
Sources
Jack and John Leslie, 2003, Down Our Streets - Newcastle's street names explored; W.H. Knowles and J.R. Boyle, 1890, Vestigaes of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, p 87; DH Heslop et al, 1995, Excavation of the Town Wall in the Milk Market, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th Series, Vol 23 (1995), pp 215-34; Barbara Harbottle, 2009, The Medieval Archaeology of Newcastle in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, pages 29-30; S. Wrathmell, 1975, Deserted and shrunken villages in southern Northumberland from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, unpublished PhD thesis, University College, Cardiff, p 167, T Williamson and L Bellamy, 1987, Property and landscape - a social history of the land ownership and the English countryside, p 209