Flatt's/Allen's Waggonway

HER Number:
17094

District:
Outside

Site Name:
Flatt's/Allen's Waggonway

Place:
Harraton

Map Sheet:
NZ25SE

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 to easily accessible coal seams at Flatts, north- west of Chester-le-Street on land owned by Thomas Allan was in use by about 1690. The line also ran across land owned by John Hedworth in Harraton and reached the north bank of the River Wear at Fatfield. The waggonway is shown on a map of 1746

Easting:
421620

Northing:
552730

Grid Reference:
NZ421620552730

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 71) p160, 172; NEIMME: Watson 22/1; NRO PSAN/BEQ/9/1/3/42 and 54