Buildings at the junction of Drove Road and the Military Road were known as 'Lead House' by 1858, when they appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey plan, and were apparently store houses for the Langley Lead Company. The crossroads is captioned 'Lead gate' on the county maps of Greenwood and Fryer in the 1820s.
Tyne and Wear HER(1966): Throckley, Hexham Road, Lead Houses
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Tyne and Wear HER(1966): Throckley, Hexham Road, Lead Houses
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John Fryer & Sons' Map of the County of Northumberland, 1820.
This name is applied to a small house in former times it was used as a store for lead it is now Inhabited and in good repair.
Northumberland Ordnance Survey Name Book(c.1860): Newburn 403 p.42
Northumberland Ordnance Survey Name Book(c.1860): Newburn 403 p.42
Ordnance Survey 25" Northumberland (Old Series) LXXXVII.15, Revised: 1895, Published: 1897. National Library of Scotland.
Mr. Walton having been at Throckley the other Day observed a great Quantity of Lead lying at the End of the Lane leading from the Turnpike Road to Newburn. We desire you will acquaint the Carriers that unless they remove it and deliver it either at Newcastle or Newburn immediately, we will take care to give Directions to have it taken away, and certainly will not pay one farthing carriage for it from the Mill to the place where it now lyes.
The Carrier who delivered his Lead at Newburn contrary to Direction must not have any more Lead unless he can give a sufficient reason shewing that he could not deliver it at Newcastle without being put to very great Inconvenience.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 22 Mar 1782.
Archives of Greenwich Hospital (TNA ADM 66 97) Transcribed by Dukesfield Smelters & Carriers Project
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The Carrier who delivered his Lead at Newburn contrary to Direction must not have any more Lead unless he can give a sufficient reason shewing that he could not deliver it at Newcastle without being put to very great Inconvenience.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 22 Mar 1782.
Archives of Greenwich Hospital (TNA ADM 66 97) Transcribed by Dukesfield Smelters & Carriers Project
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There is no lead in the Newburn area, but the industry has nevertheless affected the region. According to Linsley (n.d.) a bridle path which once ran past Cutty Coats Farm (see chapter eight), would have once been used by lead-carrying packhorses and Cutty Coats may actually have been the home base for a smallholder involved in the lead-carrying trade (Linsley, n.d.). The crossroads on the toll road at Throckley is captioned 'Lead Gate' on Fryer's map of 1820 (fig. 113) and adjacent buildings were known as 'Lead House' by 1858 (first edition Ordnance Survey map) and were apparently lead store houses for the Langley Lead Company (Walton 1994, 17; Northern Counties Archaeological Services 2001, 11).
An 'old lead wharf' is shown on the Newburn Tithe Map of 1849 (NRO DT 341 M). The Primitive Methodists who built a chapel at Throckley in 1891 were mainly miners who moved from the lead mines of Allendale to work in the coal mines (Rippeth 1993, 51). The link between the lead industry and Throckley appears to be the landowner: the lead mines on Alston Moor were owned by the lords of Throckley, the Radcliffe family then Greenwich Hospital from 1734 (Poole and Raistrick 1949, 90). The eighteenth century 'Lead Road', which survives in part as a modern carriageway at Greenside near Ryton, linked the mines and smelt mills at Alston Moor and Allendale to Ryton (Raistrick 1972, 132) which lies opposite Newburn on the south bank of the Tyne.
Presumably the ford was used to bring the lead across the river and for whatever reason the mine owners built lead storage buildings within their holdings on the main road into Newcastle.
Morrison, Jennifer (2007) Newburn Manor: an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Masters thesis, Durham University.
An 'old lead wharf' is shown on the Newburn Tithe Map of 1849 (NRO DT 341 M). The Primitive Methodists who built a chapel at Throckley in 1891 were mainly miners who moved from the lead mines of Allendale to work in the coal mines (Rippeth 1993, 51). The link between the lead industry and Throckley appears to be the landowner: the lead mines on Alston Moor were owned by the lords of Throckley, the Radcliffe family then Greenwich Hospital from 1734 (Poole and Raistrick 1949, 90). The eighteenth century 'Lead Road', which survives in part as a modern carriageway at Greenside near Ryton, linked the mines and smelt mills at Alston Moor and Allendale to Ryton (Raistrick 1972, 132) which lies opposite Newburn on the south bank of the Tyne.
Presumably the ford was used to bring the lead across the river and for whatever reason the mine owners built lead storage buildings within their holdings on the main road into Newcastle.
Morrison, Jennifer (2007) Newburn Manor: an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Masters thesis, Durham University.
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