Killingworth, Wagonway

HER Number

2162

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Killingworth, Wagonway

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Tramway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Wagonway

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Wagonway, from Killingworth Wagonway (HER ref. 1083) to NZ 2900 7072, north of a row of houses at Palmersville. This is not on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan so was built after 1858. It partly reuses line of an earlier wagonway (HER ref. 1098).

Easting

429000

Northing

570200

Grid Reference

NZ429000570200

Sources

<< HER 2162 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, NW