Harraton, Joliffe's Waggonway

HER Number:
17098

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Harraton, Joliffe's Waggonway

Place:
Harraton

Map Sheet:
NZ25SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
By the 1760s, the Flatts Waggonway (HER 17094) ran on a curving route through Harraton and to Fatfield avoiding land within the Peareth Estate. A new staith had also been built at Fatfield owned by the Hedworths.

Easting:
30354

Northing:
54016

Grid Reference:
NZ3035454016

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 71J) p160 & 171; NRO: Brown collection SANT/BEQ/9/1/3/43