Tyne and Wear HER(3847): Beacon Lough, Wagonway - Details
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