Westgate Road, cock fighting pit

HER Number

15709

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Westgate Road, cock fighting pit

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Baiting Place

Site Type: Specific

Cockpit

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

J. Collingwood Bruce wrote in 1863 that a cock pit had flourished in Newcastle's Westgate 'even during the Commonwealth, when all public amusements were regularly interdicted'.

Easting

424000

Northing

564000

Grid Reference

NZ424000564000

Sources

Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 11