Ox Close

HER Number

11608

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Ox Close

Place

Ryhope

Map Sheet

NZ45SW

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farmstead

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Farm shown on Bell's plan of Durham Coalfield 1843, Ordnance Survey first edition 1856, An Eye Plan of the township of Ryhope 1869, Ordnance Survey second edition 1896, third edition 1919, fourth edition 1938. On the fifth edition of 1960 the farm is much bigger with a training yard to the south.

Easting

440000

Northing

553020

Grid Reference

NZ440000553020

Sources

J.H. Parker (Tyne and Wear Museums), 2008, Tunstall Vale, Ryhope, Sunderland - Archaeological Desk-based Assessment; Ordnance Survey first edition 1856, second edition 1896, third edition 1919, fourth edition 1938, fifth edition 1960, An Eye Plan of the township of Ryhope 1869; Bell's Plan of Durham Coalfield, 1843 (TWAS DT.BEL/21/12-4); Archaeological Services University of Durham, 2013, Cherry Knowle, Ryhope, Sunderland, Archaeological Assessment; William Whellan & Co, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham, p 616; TWM Archaeology, 2009, Ox Close Farm, Tunstall Vale, Ryhope, Sunderland - Historic Building Recording