Backworth Wagonway, West Holywell Branch

HER Number:
1109

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Backworth Wagonway, West Holywell Branch

Place:
Backworth

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Branch from the "Old Coal Pits" (HER 1108). This line was abandoned by 1860. In the 1970s the stone blocks which supported the rails were still in-situ. Now cleared.

Easting:
3071

Northing:
7253

Grid Reference:
NZ30717253

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1109 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; John Elliott & Derek Charlton, 1994, Backworth - An Illustrated History of the Mines and Railways