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- During the 14th century a substantial wall was constructed to defend the landward western side of the peninsula and the beach on the south side. This enclosed the harbour and made Hartlepool one of the most fortified port towns, and the only walled town without a castle, in England.
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In the thirteenth century the coastal port and fishing town of Hartlepool became a fortified place with defensive walls constructed around the Headland. The defences were instigated by Robert Bruce the first, who was grandfather of the famous King of Scotland of that name.
Why was the town wall built? How was its construction paid for? The wall was built during the 14th century to defend against Robert de Brus and his Scottish army and not by Brus himself as is traditionally assumed. Once owned by Brus, Hartlepool was in serious danger of attack as the Scots raided northern England. Following a murage
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The Peninsula of Hartlepool forms one of the most striking features of the Eastern coast, connected with the main shore only by a narrow neck on the North, the land stretches to the South and South-west, assuming at high water the shape of a crescent, and forming within its curve a natural harbour, secure from the Eastern winds, which prevail with ...
The Charter of King John has been already mentioned (and see the Appendix). In 1230 the charter of Richard Poor grants, that the men of Hartlepool shall be free burgesses, and hold all their tenements by their just rents only, free of all other service, aid, or exaction; extends the fair of St. Lawrence to fifteen days; and gives in general terms “...
1605 Matthew Dodsworth.1640 Edward Wright, of Gray's Inn, Esq. Recorder of Durham.1647 John Turner, of Kirkleatham, Serjeant-at-law.1667 John Swinburne, Esq.The Church stands on a rising ground, at the Eastern extremity of Southgate-street, within a spacious cemetery opening to the moor and the sea. The structure consists of a nave with regular ailes, and a chancel and West tower (fn. 157). The tower and nave only are ancient. The chancel, which has been abridged and rebuilt (fn. 158), opens under a lo...
In the chancel, on a large slab, inlaid with a brass plate, bearing the full effigies of a comely woman in a high crowned hat, ruff, long waist and stomacher, close gown with long sleeves and flowered petticoat—casta fides victrix: Here under this stone lyeth buryed the bodie of the vertuous gentlewoman Jane Bell, who dep'ted this lyfe the vi daye ...
“The frieradg of Hartilpool was founded by (the same) Robert Bruse (fn. 171), being Gray Friers of the order Saint Fraunces, as I am thereof informed; and for the value of the same house you shall know at my cuming up (fn. 172).” So saith Master Layton, one of the visitors of the Northern Abbies before the Dissolution. Tanner says, this house exist...
The charitable bequests under the will of the eccentric Henry Smith, Alderman of London (fn. 181), have been already mentioned. In 1634 the trustees acting under the will purchased of Robert and William Porrett, Gents. divers parcels, which are described in a deed dated Dec. 20, 1641, as “one capital messuage (fn. 182) and divers other messuages, l...
Mar 14, 2021 · In the early 14th century walls were built around Hartlepool but in 1315, before they were completed, the Scots attacked and sacked the town. However, Hartlepool recovered and in the late 15th century a pier was built.
Hartlepool occupies a rocky peninsula (the ‘eg’ or island of the name) connected to the mainland by a narrow neck of blown sand only 500 yards wide; there is no evidence that it was ever a tidal island like Holy Island but in ancient times the connecting neck of land was probably narrower than now.
Defensive walls were built around the town in the 13th century to protect it from the marauding Scots, and some of these can still be seen. At the Sandwell Gate, built in the 14th century, the wall is over eight feet thick.
