South Knopley, stones

HER Number

11562

District

Newcastle

Site Name

South Knopley, stones

Place

Walbottle

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Boundary

Site Type: Specific

Boundary Stone

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A large field on the 1848 Tithe Map (No. 51 South Knopley) has a curious rectangular enclosure of glebe land at its centre, which is marked by 'stones' on the Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858. This probably coincides with an area of freehold shown on the 1620 map. Note that an earthwork was noted at this same location (HER 1293).

Easting

417980

Northing

565710

Grid Reference

NZ417980565710

Sources

Walbottle Tithe Map, 1848, Northumberland Museum and Archives (Woodhorn) NRO DT 468 M; A plan of the manor of Newburn, 1620, Alnwick Castle Archives Class O, Div. xvii, No. 1; Ordnance Survey First Edition Map, 1858; Jennifer Morrison, 2007, Newburn manor - an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol 1, p 70 (unpublished MA thesis, Durham University)