Washington Glebe Waggonway
Washington Glebe Waggonway
HER Number
17092
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Washington Glebe Waggonway
Place
Washington
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
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 line, opened before 1787 moving coal from Washington Glebe Colliery to the west of Washington to staiths at Cox Green on the north bank of the River Wear.
Easting
430270
Northing
556300
Grid Reference
NZ430270556300
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 80) 73, 161 and 172; Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787; NEIMME: Watson 34/1