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| Spanish Battery | Spanish Battery | James Pry | On the East end | A small Fort erected in 1642 where some | ||
| Tynemouth | of the Township | few Guns have been formerly | ||||
| Spanish Battery | Shields & Turners Guide | and 1/2 mile SE | Mounted, but none at present, it is | |||
| Spanish Battery | Map of Township | of Tynemouth | occupied by a few of the preventive | |||
| force, and used as a station for such | ||||||
| the name tis said is derived from being | ||||||
| built at the invasion of the Spanish Armada | ||||||
| Low Battery | Low Battery | Mr [Jos.?] Lowes | On the East end [*] | A place where 2 or 3 guns were | ||
| on plan 10 | Low Battery | Mr Wm Trotter | of the Township | formerly, so called to distinguish it from | ||
| Low Battery | Mr Chas Lawes | and 1/2 mile SE | the above Battery it is constructed | |||
| of Tynemouth | in the face of the Cliff | |||||
| Prior’s Haven | Prior’s Haven | James Pry | In the East of the | A sheltered inlet or Bay used | ||
| Tynemouth | Township and 1/4 | as a bathing place in the | ||||
| Prior’s Haven | Map of Township | mile E of the | Summer Months in Connexion | |||
| Prior’s Haven | Map of Township | Village of Tynemouth | with the baths adjoining this is | |||
| supposed to have been an artificial | ||||||
| Roman harbour | ||||||
Note: Unsigned; the non-standard format of this 1857 Name Book has been modified to match other transcriptions
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