Joliffe's Waggonway
Joliffe's Waggonway
HER Number
17098
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Joliffe's Waggonway
Place
Harraton
Map Sheet
NZ25SE
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Tramway Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Wagonway
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
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
430354
Northing
554016
Grid Reference
NZ430354554016
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