Gateshead Park to Saltmeadows Way

HER Number:
17085

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead Park to Saltmeadows Way

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A short line to a pit in Gateshead Park, it was in use by 1660 and a version was still present in 1787 on Gibson's map of the coalfield of 1787.

Easting:
2701

Northing:
6332

Grid Reference:
NZ27016332

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear no. 31; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 48) p158, 169; TWAS: Bell/2/155; Bennett et al 1990, A Fighting Trade - Rail Transport in Tyne Coal 1600-1800, vol 1: 156, vol 2: 4; Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787