Commissioner's Staiths (South)

HER Number

2200

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Commissioner's Staiths (South)

Place

Howdon

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Water Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Staith

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This is the southern pair of the two sets with this name (with HER ref. 2142). They are not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so were built after 1858.They were supplied by the extensions (HER ref. 2201) to the North Eastern Railway, Blyth and Tyne Railway (HER ref. 2139).

Easting

435010

Northing

566210

Grid Reference

NZ435010566210

Sources

<< HER 2200 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98, NE