Waggonway to Riddings Colliery, branch lines around Bournmoor

HER Number:
17109

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Waggonway to Riddings Colliery, branch lines around Bournmoor

Place:
Fencehouses

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 1754 plan of the Lambton Estate shows a waggonway running from Riddings Colliery to coal staiths at Pensher.

Easting:
3189

Northing:
5200

Grid Reference:
NZ31895200

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 84) p161; Lambton Estate Map 1754