Gateshead, Pipewellgate, Iron Foundry

HER Number:
3487

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Pipewellgate, Iron Foundry

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Foundry

Site Type: Specific:
Iron Foundry

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. This may have been the concern of John Whinfield who owned an iron foundry in Pipewellgate in the 18th century. In 1798, Whinfield became the sole agent for Andrew Meikle's threshing machine and in 1803 the sole agent for Richard Trevithick's locomotive engine. Between 1804-5, a prototype railway locomotive was built and used as a stationary engine in the Pipewellgate foundry. Whinfield then lost the agency.

Easting:
2517

Northing:
6356

Grid Reference:
NZ25176356

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3487 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2