MAIN DIKE STONE

MAIN DIKE STONE, AIDAN WALK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185873
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: MAIN DIKE STONE
Statutory Address:: MAIN DIKE STONE, AIDAN WALK

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Date:: 2001-01-29
Reference:: IOE01/03306/05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185873
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: MAIN DIKE STONE
Statutory Address 1:: MAIN DIKE STONE, AIDAN WALK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MAIN DIKE STONE, AIDAN WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 25031 68276

Details

NZ 26 NE GOSFORTH AIDAN WALK (east end)

9/11 Main Dike stone.

G.V. II

Marker stone. Sandstone ashlar. Circa 1828. Round-topped slab about 1½ metres high inscribed on east MAIN/DIKE/distance/from Pit/349 yards/ Cut 3 June/1828. On rear MAIN/DIKE. Historical note: the main or 90 fathom dike was a serious obstacle to coalmining in Northumberland. An underground ball was held to commemorate this event; each guest hewed a souvenir piece of coal. Source: R. Welford History of the Parish of Gosforth, Newcastle 1879 (reprint 1975 p. 48).

Listing NGR: NZ2503168276

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 304331
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Welford, R, History of the Parish of Gosforth Newcastle 1879, (1975), 48

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.