Tyne and Wear HER(17108): Birtley, Leefield Waggonway - Details
17108
Sunderland
Birtley, Leefield Waggonway
Birtley
NZ25SE
Transport
Tramway
Wagonway
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
This was a branch of the John Hedworth’s Waggonway (HER2562) to staiths at Fatfield from Leefield. It was opened before 1710. The line is shown on John Gibson’s Map of the Coalfield of 1787. Its exact route has not been traced.
2731
5462
NZ27315462
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 72D); Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787