Harraton, (Humble's) waggonway

HER Number

14891

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Harraton, (Humble's) waggonway

Place

Harraton

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

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

Part of Humble's waggonway from Birtey Fell to Fatfield staiths established in 1741. Shown on Gibson's map of 1788, Hobson 1839, Bell 1843 and the first edition Ordnance Survey of 1856. Shown on Gibson's map of 1788, Hobson 1839, Bell 1843 and the first edition Ordnance Survey of 1856. In 2009 three phases of timber waggonway were archaeologically excavated on the Dunlop Tyres site by Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd.

Easting

429400

Northing

554440

Grid Reference

NZ429400554440

Sources

Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd, 2008, An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment: The Former Goodyear Dunlop Tyre Factory, Wear Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne and Wear; Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd, 2009, An Archaeological Evaluation at The Former Goodyear Dunlop Tyre Factory, Wear Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne and Wear; Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd, 2010, An Archaeological Excavation at The Former Goodyear Dunlop Tyre Factory, Wear Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne and Wear; 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 77b) p 161 and 172; Gibson, 1787, Map of the Coalfield; Casson, 1801, Map of the Coalfield