Waggonway to Riddings Colliery, branch lines around Bournmoor
Waggonway to Riddings Colliery, branch lines around Bournmoor
HER Number
17109
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Waggonway to Riddings Colliery, branch lines around Bournmoor
Place
Fencehouses
Map Sheet
NZ35SW
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 1754 plan of the Lambton Estate shows a waggonway running from Riddings Colliery to coal staiths at Pensher.
Easting
431890
Northing
552000
Grid Reference
NZ431890552000
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 84) p161; Lambton Estate Map 1754