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Local Information for Hebburn

Hebburn is a small town situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in north eastern England, sandwiched between Jarrow and Bill Quay. Alf Pawsey's book, Dear Old Hebburn, tells us that the name Hebburn is possibly derived from the Anglo-Saxon terms, 'heah' meaning high, and 'byrgen' meaning a burying place, but it could also mean the "high place beside the water". Its 21st Century population is about 30,000.

The first record of Hebburn mentions a settlement of fishermen's huts in the 8th century which were burnt by the Vikings. A preserved longboat lay embedded in the river until earlier the late 20th century.

In the 1300's the landscape was dominated by a pele tower, a 4'6" wall of which still remains in St. John's Church. The Lordship of the Manor of Hebburn was to pass through the hands of a number of families during the Middle Ages; Wilby, Gray and the Baxters who, in 1530, conveyed North Hebburn to Richard Hodgson who was to be Lord Mayor of Newcastle on three...More