Flatt's/Allen's Waggonway
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
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