Monkwearmouth & Southwick 1914

Here are the details of maps for Monkwearmouth:

Co Durham 8.10a Monkwearmouth & Southwick 1895 - published 1983, 2nd edition 2019; intro by Tom Corfe & Alan Godfrey. ISBN.978-1-78721-251-0 

Co Durham 8.10b Monkwearmouth & Southwick 1914 - published 2026; intro by John Grffiths. ISBN.978-1-78721-981-6 

We have published two versions of this busy map, showing how the area changed across the years. They cover an area from Southwick eastward to Brandling Street, Monkwearmouth, and from Wearmouth Colliery northward.

Features include railways, Wearmouth colliery, tramways, Monkwearmouth Iron Works, All Saints church, Sunderland AFC's original stadium, Wearmouth Foundry, Ayre's Quay Bottle Works, St Columba's church, Deptford Yard, Low Southwick, High Southwick, Holy Trinity church, Carley Hill Wagonway, Cornhill Dock, Marine Engineering Works, shipbuilding yards, Cornhill Glassworks, etc.

This map links up with Sheets 8.06 Fulwell to the north, 8.09 Hylton Castle to the west, 8.07 Roker Seafront to the east, and 8.14 Central Sunderland to the south.

Maps in the Godfrey Edition are taken from the 25 inch to the mile map and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile.