Biddick, Ellrington's Main Waggonway

HER Number:
17093

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Biddick, Ellrington's Main Waggonway

Place:
Biddick

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

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 waggonway running to a colliery a little way to the west of Cox Green at Worm Hill on the north bank of the River Wear. It was certainly in use by 1787, shown on Gibson’s Map of the Coalfield of that year.

Easting:
3178

Northing:
5439

Grid Reference:
NZ31785439

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 82); Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787