Wallsend Burn

HER Number

11112

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Wallsend Burn

Place

Wallsend

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad

Watercourse

Site Type: Specific

Stream

General Period

UNCERTAIN

Specific Period

Uncertain

Form of Evidence

Natural Feature

Description

Starts as two streams. From north of Cragside, then parallel with and south of Cragside over Benton Road and south-east to Etherstone Avenue. The other route runs from a pond east of Benton Road, south parallel with Benton Road to Etherstone Avenue. From there one burn runs south over Coast Road, east-south-east to cross Benfield Road, south-south-east and then east to Willington Cut. This forms the boundary between Newcastle and Wallsend.

Easting

428350

Northing

566160

Grid Reference

NZ428350566160

Sources

Map of courses of old burns and streams in Newcastle, undated but post 1928 as Tyne Bridge is shown, School of Architecture Library