Wallsend, Wagonway to Fawdon Colliery Staiths

HER Number:
2090

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Wagonway to Fawdon Colliery Staiths

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A fan of waggonways running to staiths within Wallsend and serving a number of collieries including Fawdon. Shown on an un-sourced map of 1811 in Turnbull 2012 (route 17).

Easting:
2973

Northing:
6611

Grid Reference:
NZ29736611

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2090 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne: Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project 2011-12; Bell 1847-1851: Maps of the Great Northern Coalfield, Northumberland; Turnbull, L. 2012 Railways Before George Stephenson (route 17)