Pelaw Main Wagonway

HER Number

4122

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Pelaw Main Wagonway

Place

Gateshead

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

At its northern end the Pelaw Main Wagonway joined the Ouston and Pelaw Wagonway (HER ref. 2222), towards the south it ran out of the county.

Easting

427910

Northing

560160

Grid Reference

NZ427910560160

Sources

<< HER 4122 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; W.W. Tomlinson, 1914, The North Eastern Railway - Its Rise and Development, pp 17-18