Lambton's Waggonway to Penshaw Colliery

HER Number:
17099

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Lambton's Waggonway to Penshaw Colliery

Place:
Penshaw

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 long waggonway, running between the Earl of Scarborough’s pits within Lumley Colliery and staiths on the southern bank of the River Wear at Penshaw by 1704 (Turnbull 2012, 163). Various branches were added to the waggonway over the succeeding century. In 1784, the lease to Lumley Colliery was bought by Lord Lambton. In the 1790s, a short branch line was constructed from his colliery at Penshaw. It is shown on Casson’s Map of the Coalfield of 1801.

Easting:
3224

Northing:
5484

Grid Reference:
NZ32245484

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 84G) p 163 & 172; Bell's Map of 1829