Heworth, Incline ? (High Heworth Way)

HER Number

3837

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Heworth, Incline ? (High Heworth Way)

Place

Heworth

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

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

A possible incline is shown on the 1st edition OS mapping as a track or path, with a building adjacent to it called Incline House. This makes up a short section of the High Heworth Way identified by Alan Williams. The waggonway was possibly in use by 1701, running from Blackett's Heworth Colliery to Heworth Shore. The line also carried grindstone roughed out in quarries in Heworth. A branch line led to the Grindstone Quay at the western end of Heworth Shore. The main line was extended by 1805 and carried coal from Sheriff Hill Colliery.

Easting

427590

Northing

560150

Grid Reference

NZ427590560150

Sources

<< HER 3837 >> 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 44) 158, 169; NRO: PSAN/BEQ/9/1/3/16