Sandwell Gate

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Town Wall and Sandwell Gate


Hartlepool Headland

  • Description

    "Built in 1400 to provides access for fishermen through the Town Wall onto Fish Sands [[1606546]]. The walls were built to protect the town from Scottish raiding forces. At completion they were about 6m high and 2m thick, built with locally quarried limestone. The triangular abutments enclosing the arch are unique in English walled towns. The walls fell into disuse in the late 1400's except where, as here, they formed part of the sea defences. The name Sandwell derives from the now dried up Chalybeate Spring which was located on the beach nearby." Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2009.

  • Owner

    Andrew Curtis

  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)

  • License

    What does this mean? Creative Commons License

  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1606520
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 7 years, 11 months ago
    Viewed: 709 times
    Picture Taken: 2009-12-04

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