Felling, Turnwater Fishery

HER Number

12280

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Felling, Turnwater Fishery

Place

Felling

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Fishing Site

Site Type: Specific

Fish Weir

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Turnwater in 1344. 'Turn' is a variant of Old English 'trun' meaning circular or round. Owned by the bishop of Durham. Below Friar's Goose at NZ 275 635. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.

Easting

428100

Northing

563200

Grid Reference

NZ428100563200

Sources

Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61