Heddon Waggonway

HER Number

15350

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Heddon Waggonway

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Tramway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Wagonway

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A waggonway running west from a junction with the Wylam Waggonway shown on a map made for the Duke of Northumberland in 1767 (NRO: ZanBellM17/197/A plan 24)

Easting

415490

Northing

565850

Grid Reference

NZ415490565850

Sources

Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; North East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineering: NRO/3410/ Watson 24/10: General Map showing the situation of the Tyne Collieries. Not dated but around 1830; Turnbull, L. 2012 Railways Before George Stephenson, route 35A