Map of the River Tyne

Item date: 1670, 1675
Grant Value: £300
Item cost: £500
Item date acquired: 2010
Item institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear

A printed map of the River Tyne from Heddon on the Wall to the sea in two sections, evidently produced in connection with a disputed proposal to erect a ballast shore at Jarrow Slake. No other copy of the 1675 section appears to be known.

Item Provenance
Alex Fotheringham, bookseller