Penshaw, quarry

HER Number:
16881

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Penshaw, quarry

Place:
Penshaw

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Stone Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific:
Quarry

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Large quarry shown as disused on the 2nd edition plan (1896). This does not figure on the 1862 plan. It was connected by a waggonway to the Lambton Railway line to the west. The course of the waggonway is followed by the present day Wensleydale Avenue. Its track had been mostly lifted by 1896.

Easting:
326

Northing:
534

Grid Reference:
NZ326534

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, Penshaw: Not just a monument - Historic Village Atlas; Second Edition Ordnance Survey, 1898