Beacon Lough, Wagonway

HER Number

3847

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Beacon Lough, Wagonway

Place

Beacon Lough

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

The line of Gateshead Fell Waggonway (HER 5241) was extended to Sheriff Hill Colliery. Another line (High Heworth Way) carried coal from 1805.

Easting

426400

Northing

560010

Grid Reference

NZ426400560010

Sources

<< HER 3847 >> 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 51a) 160, 169; TWAS: DT/Bell/2/143