Silksworth, pottery

HER Number

8491

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Silksworth, pottery

Place

Silksworth

Map Sheet

NZ35SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Pottery Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Pottery Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

In 1754 the Silksworth Pottery was let by Mrs Ettrick.

Easting

437000

Northing

553000

Grid Reference

NZ437000553000

Sources

F. Buckley, 1927, Potteries on the Tyne and Other Northern Potteries during the C18, Archaeologia Aeliana, series 4, Vol 4, pp 68-82