Washington, Machine

HER Number

2613

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Washington, Machine

Place

Washington

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Machinery

Site Type: Specific

Machinery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan shows an ‘Old Machine’, with an adjacent spoil heap. It could perhaps have been a winding engine at the head of a shaft or a static engine on a railway or waggonway incline.

Easting

429100

Northing

557090

Grid Reference

NZ429100557090

Sources

<< HER 2613 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7