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Site of Chapel and Shop Row, Plashetts

Sadly over the years the site was become overgrown and it’s more difficult to see the foundations and the outline of the rooms of the rows of houses and cottages. Every time I return there appear to be less and less to see and it would be very sad if all traces of this once thriving community were to were to disappear. There was a museum at Lewis Burn that had a display about Plashetts which was quite good but I’m not certain if the Visitor Centre at Tower Knowe has any materials on Plashetts.

It’s a great pity that the archaeological work by the Newcastle University students came to an end and that the Forestry Commission or Northumbrian Water Board have done nothing to maintain the site. Considering the amount of money that was been spent over the years in signage and architectural features its bewildering that there isn’t at least one interpretation board on the Plashetts site. Plashetts is a small fragment of the industrial heritage of Northumberland but its position and isolation makes it unique. It would be a great shame if this site was lost to the onslaught of the forest without any references to its former glory.