Fighting Cock Lane

Fighting Cock Lane

HER Number

16993

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Fighting Cock Lane

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Baiting Place

Site Type: Specific

Cockpit

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Placename Evidence

Description

The name is suggestive of the site of cock fighting.

Grid Reference

Sources

Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 129