Newburn Wagonway

HER Number

4274

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Newburn Wagonway

Place

Newburn

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Tramway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Wagonway

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

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

417630

Northing

565960

Grid Reference

NZ417630565960

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