Upper Heworth Wagonway

HER Number:
3891

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Upper Heworth Wagonway

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
2893

Northing:
6139

Grid Reference:
NZ28936139

Lats/Lons:

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