Fatfield, Peareth's Main Waggonway

HER Number:
17095

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Fatfield, Peareth's Main Waggonway

Place:
Fatfield

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A waggonway one mile long running from Peareth’s Main colliery to a staith at Chartershaugh on the north bank of the River Wear. It is shown on Gibson’s Map of the Coalfield of 1787 but dates of opening and closure are not certain.

Easting:
30918

Northing:
53690

Grid Reference:
NZ3091853690

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
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 76) p 161 and 172; Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787; Casson's Map of the Coalfield 1801; NRO SANT/9/1/3/48