Brandling Waggonway (branch to Gateshead Fell)

HER Number:
17088

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Brandling Waggonway (branch to Gateshead Fell)

Place:
Sheriff Hill

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:
A branch of the Brandling waggonway was running to serve the coal pits of John Wilkinson on Gateshead Fell by about 1720.

Easting:
2617

Northing:
6102

Grid Reference:
NZ26176102

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 45a) 158, 169; NRO, map 1720 SANT/BEQ/9/1/3/15