Washington Waggonway (Usworth Way to Cox Green)

HER Number:
2624

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Washington Waggonway (Usworth Way to Cox Green)

Place:
Washington

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW NZ35SW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Washington Wagonway linked Washington Colliery ‘1’ and ‘B’ Pits to the North Eastern Railway, Pontop and South Shields Branch at Victoria Place. On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, it seems to have a short disused branch to ‘The Old Engine’ (HER ref. 2622), from NZ 3019 5684.

Easting:
3002

Northing:
5700

Grid Reference:
NZ30025700

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2624 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2012, Teal Village Farm, Washington, Tyne and Wear - archaeological evaluation; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 81) 172; Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear