Gateshead, Tyne Main/Friars Goose Wagonway

HER Number:
3533

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Tyne Main/Friars Goose Wagonway

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Tyne Main Wagonway ran from the two Tyne Main Pits, (SMR numbers 3532 and 3538), to the Tyne Main Staiths, (SMR 3534). Probably followed the line of the earlier Friar's Goose Way, built c.1746 which ran to Friars Goose from a staith on the Saltmeadows frontage of the River Tyne. It is shown on a map of 1747. Gibson's map of the Coalfield of 1787 shows the disused waggonway's staith.

Easting:
2745

Northing:
6320

Grid Reference:
NZ27456320

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3533 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3 Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 1, p 156; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 47) 160, 169; TWAS Gateshead Park Estate, 1810, DT/Bell/2/155; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear; Gibson's Map of the Coalfield 1787