Upper Heworth Wagonway
Upper Heworth Wagonway
HER Number
3891
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Upper Heworth Wagonway
Place
Heworth
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Tramway Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Wagonway
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows the course of Upper Heworth Wagonway, which connected Upper Heworth Colliery to the Ouston and Pelaw Wagonway.
Easting
428930
Northing
561390
Grid Reference
NZ428930561390
Sources
<< HER 3891 >> 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