Brandling Waggonway

HER Number:
17087

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Brandling Waggonway

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
This waggonway may have been in operation by 1676. It is shown on a map of 1730, on Gibson's Map of the Collieries of 1787 and on Bell's Map of 1843. It ran from coal pits in the Carr Hill area of Felling Royalty owned by the Brandling family to Felling Staith on the south bank of the River Tyne.

Easting:
2680

Northing:
6128

Grid Reference:
NZ26806128

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 45) 169; Gibson, 1787, Map of Coalfield;