Washington Glebe Waggonway

HER Number:
17092

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Washington Glebe Waggonway

Place:
Washington

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A short line, opened before 1787 moving coal from Washington Glebe Colliery to the west of Washington to staiths at Cox Green on the north bank of the River Wear.

Easting:
3027

Northing:
5630

Grid Reference:
NZ30275630

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 80) 73, 161 and 172; Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787; NEIMME: Watson 34/1