Newburn Wagonway

HER Number:
4274

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newburn Wagonway

Place:
Newburn

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A waggonway running between the Walbottle Duke Pit Waggonway and Blucher Pit on the Walbottle Coronation Pit Branch. It is not named on the first edition 25” Ordnance Survey and had certainly fallen out of use by that time.

Easting:
1763

Northing:
6596

Grid Reference:
NZ17636596

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4274 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 96, NE; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne: Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project 2011-12