Sandhill, weigh house

HER Number

6590

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Sandhill, weigh house

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Weigh House

Site Type: Specific

Weigh House

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Under the town court (guildhall) was the weigh-house where the Clerk of the Chamber and the Chamberlain received taxes for coal, salt, ballast grinding stones etc.

Easting

425200

Northing

563830

Grid Reference

NZ425200563830

Sources

H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 125.