Walbottle Moor Waggonway

HER Number:
15353

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walbottle Moor Waggonway

Place:
Walbottle

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 short waggonway running north from Cut End to an unnamed coal pit. Warn shows it as Walbottle Moor Pit but this is not certainly so. Gibson’s 1787 plan of the routes which names Walbottle Moor suggests a different location for the pit.

Easting:
416620

Northing:
567940

Grid Reference:
NZ416620567940

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; Gibson, 1787, Plan of the Collieries of the Rivers Tyne and Wear; CR Warn, 1976, Waggonways and Early Railways of Northumberland 1605-1840, p 52