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3847


Gateshead


Beacon Lough, Wagonway


Beacon Lough


NZ26SE NZ25NE


Transport


Tramway


Wagonway


Post Medieval


C18


Documentary Evidence


The line of Gateshead Fell Waggonway (HER 5241) was extended to Sheriff Hill Colliery. Another line (High Heworth Way) carried coal from 1805.


2640


6001


NZ26406001



<< HER 3847 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 51a) 160, 169; TWAS: DT/Bell/2/143

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