Wellfield

HER Number

13786

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Wellfield

Place

Wellfield

Map Sheet

NZ37SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Housing Estate

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

A tiny settlement of semi detached houses called Wellfield. Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition map of 1920. The first street to be built was Holly Avenue and part of what is now Monkseaton Road. The estate had been massively expnaded by the fourth edition of 1938 to include Waterloo Road, Wellington Avenue and Whitley Road etc. Today Wellfield and South Wellfield link Monkseaton and Earsdon.

Easting

432560

Northing

572330

Grid Reference

NZ432560572330

Sources

Ordnance Survey Third Edition Map 1920