Tyne and Wear HER(2808): Bishopwearmouth, Hetton Drops - Details
2808
Sunderland
Bishopwearmouth, Hetton Drops
Bishopwearmouth
NZ35NE
Transport
Lifting and Winding Structure
Coal Drop
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Hetton Drops was the northern terminus of the Hetton Company Railway (HER ref. 2850).
3903
5763
NZ39035763
<< HER 2808 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8
T. Robson, 1827, Plan of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth
T. Powell, 2000, Staith to Conveyor, An Illustrated History of Coal Shipping Equipment, p 48
I. Ayris, 1996, Trimdon Street and Farringdon Row, Sunderland - Appraisal of the Histo
Northern Archaeological Associates, 2004, Farringdon Row, Sunderland, Archaeological Desk Based Assessment