Killingworth New Line to Wallsend

HER Number:
15351

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Killingworth New Line to Wallsend

Place:
Killingworth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A new route to the River Tyne for Killingworth Waggonway (route 59) was opened in around 1820. It turned sharply to the south at Rising Sun Farm to staiths at Wallsend adjacent to Wallsend G or Church Pit.

Easting:
3019

Northing:
6902

Grid Reference:
NZ30196902

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; Bell 1847-1851: Maps of the Great Northern Coalfield, Northumberland; Ordnance Survey First Edition 1858; CR Warn, 1976, Waggonways and Early Railways of Northumberland 1605-1840, p 49, route 48