Usworth, Engine House

HER Number

3055

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Usworth, Engine House

Place

Usworth

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Engine House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows an Engine House on the course of a wagonway (HER ref. 3174).

Easting

431900

Northing

555540

Grid Reference

NZ431900555540

Sources

<< HER 3055 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13