West Allotment Local History
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Description
....“The Allotment” was not called after garden plots. It has nothing at all to do with garden allotments. The name stems from the Enclosures Act 1790 Moor Enclosure in which the Tynemouthshire Moor was broken up into allotted land parcels. A barren area on a waste moor did not merit a name of its own, hence it was tagged as the Allotment. Waste then meaning land not suitable for agriculture, used as rough grazing only. Predominantly a mining village, farming took place at Prospect Hill Farm and Low Allotment Farm (now roughly the Village Hotel.... -
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Link: https://johnsmancave.org/
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
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