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Barn and Gingang to North of Woodhead Farmhouse, Hedley
Grade 2 listed - Barn probably C18, gingang early C19
Not visible in this image - Hexagonal gingang to rear -roof in poor condition at time of survey.
I spent hours looking up gingang, it seems to be a word invented by English Heritage! Not even in the big Oxford dictionary, lat alone Chambers or Collins. Usually it is two words except on building listings...
The word "gin" comes from "engine" and the horse does the "ganging" or "going" - this is Northumbria. Typically a threshing mill. The building was to keep the wooden gears dry.
In the 19th century there were 575 gin gangs in Northumberland but between the 1890s and the 1960s, hundreds of these were destroyed. In the 1970s, 276 survived in Northumberland
The hexagonal gin gang ruin is hiding behind the barn - it is better visible on bing maps satellite view, or the tile address is:
http://ak.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/cmd/ObliqueHybrid?
a=03131112101-1251-19-37&g=2265
(you will need to remove the space after the question mark)
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