Usworth, Wagonway

HER Number

2610

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Usworth, Wagonway

Place

Usworth

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

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

Wagonway, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857. Entire course is unclear but may have led from pits within Usworth Main or Russell’s Main Colliery to the north west of Washington to staiths on the south bank of the River Tyne at Bill Quay. It was in use between 1787 and 1836.

Easting

430310

Northing

559880

Grid Reference

NZ430310559880

Sources

<< HER 2610 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; 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 40) p158, 169; NEIMME: Watson 24/10; Gibson's 1787 Map of Coalfield