The Lost Village Traditional Cache
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7/25/2010
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This is a larger sized micro, note this is no longer magnetic. Access is via public bridleway with parking close by in the sports centre car park at N54 59.676 W001 33.108.
Bigges Main village was located where Wallsend Golf Course (now renamed Centurion Park) is today.
Bigges Main village was founded in the seventeenth century when Thomas Charles Bigg, who lived at Benton, opened a pit there. He leased his coal royalties to Messrs. Bell, Brown and Johnstone in 1785; the lease to last for 40 years. The new owners sank three shafts, built cottages for the miners and successfully ran the enterprise for 41 years.
In 1910, Bigges Main with its population of 690 was incorporated into the Borough of Wallsend. In its post-mining era, Bigges Main, about half a mile outside Wallsend was a pretty peaceful village with its own village school, chapel and country inn.
The village was accessed by a dirt road half way along the Coast Road from West St to Wills cigarette factory until it's demolition around the mid fifties.
The local pub was called The Mason's Arms and was still open until the early sixties when it was demolished as part of the development of the area to form Wallsend Sports Centre.
Around 1930 Westmorland Estate was built and two of the streets were named after Bigges Main.These were Main Crescent and Bigges Gardens and it was said that these names would help the new settlers who were rehoused when Bigges Main was demolished.
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