Newbottle, Railway/Wagonway

HER Number

3130

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Newbottle, Railway/Wagonway

Place

Newbottle

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

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

A Wagonway or Railway is marked (as both) on Historic Ordnance Survey maps.This may have been a continuation of the Londonderry Railway (HER ref. 3081), from Painshaw Foundry to Sedgeletch. On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan it is marked as ‘Old’, indicating that it was probably out of use by 1858.

Easting

432400

Northing

551950

Grid Reference

NZ432400551950

Sources

<< HER 3130 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13