Town Moor, Battery

Town Moor, Battery

HER Number
4419
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Town Moor, Battery
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Battery
Site Type: Specific
Battery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
This Gun platform at south end of the moor appears on Rain's Eye Plan.
Easting
440960
Northing
556970
Grid Reference
NZ440960556970
Sources
<< HER 4419 >> Clay, Miller & Milburn, 1984, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, p 37
G. McCombie, 1997, The Development of Sunderland Town Moor, p 15
J.W. Summers, 1858, The History of Sunderland, p 76-85