English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
Crossref
1023
DAY1
18
District
Gateshead
Easting
420760
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557880
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Whickham
Description
The Bowes Engine was established with its reservoir on the North Eastern Railway, Tanfield Branch.
Site Type: Broad
Machinery
SITEDESC
The Bowes Engine with its reservoir on the North Eastern Railway, Tanfield Branch.
Site Name
Bowes Bridge Engine and Reservoir
Site Type: Specific
Engine
HER Number
3715
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3715 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
DAY1
18
District
Gateshead
Easting
420720
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557930
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Marley Hill
Description
Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows a Gravel Pit at this location.
Site Type: Broad
Mineral Extraction Site
SITEDESC
A Gravel Pit.
Site Name
Marley Hill, Gravel Pit
Site Type: Specific
Gravel Pit
HER Number
3714
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3714 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Transport
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
Crossref
1785
DAY1
18
District
Gateshead
Easting
420750
EASTING2
2002
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
557950
NORTHING2
5723
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Whickham
Description
Marleyhill Wagonway. After the building of the Causey Arch, a number of branches were developed to exploit the Tanfield lease north and east of Tanfield village. These branches included: a Tanfield Branch from the Arch to Tanfield Colliery; a Tanfield Leith Branch that followed the Causey Burn upstream before heading for Tantobie; a Tanfield Lea Branch along the west bank of the Causey Burn from North Causey around 1755. After the merging of the Tanfield and Western Ways around 1800 all these branches disappeared. The old Tanfield Lea Waggonway was bought in 1836 by the Brandling Junctoin Railway and restored it to the Redheugh terminus. It later gave rise to the North Eastern Railway’s Tanfield Branch, which survived until closure in 1964. The branch lay in Bowes’ Northbanks and Marley Hill land and joined the Tanfield Way at Bowes Bridge. It appears on a plan of 1728, with a likely railhead near Pickering Nook. The Tanfield Moor Branch had a long, but not continuous, existence. Around 1800 it was used to convert the Western and Tanfield Ways into a single system; later it became the backbone of the Pontop and Jarrow Railway and as such survived in the 20th century. There are a confusing number of different branches to Axwell’s estate of Beckley. It was twice joined to the Western Way and twice to Tanfield. The colliery was won in 1725 and was at that time joined to both Western Ways at the end of Crookgate Bridge. Beckley closed in May 1726, so the link with the Western Way only lasted for one season. The colliery was then joined to the Tanfield Way. Beckley was important to the Grand Allies because it was a working colliery already in production and in its first four years of their lease it produced far more output than any of their other leases. North of Bobgins bridge there was a steep pull and this may have contributed to difficulties in optimising the output. A second waggonway entry was built from the south by two short branch lines, probably in 1729. Beckley was said to be almost worked out in 1739, and the branch must then have been lifted. It is possible that Beckley was once again joined to the Western Way in the 1740s. It was leased to the Grand Allies in 1748 for 14 years so the branches may have been reorganised once again.
SITEASS
Tanfield Moor Waggonway
Substantial battery or “bridge”, probably 30m wide at base and 8m-10m high, crossed Andrew’s House Gill (NZ 2069 5789)
A long battery on a pull from Crookbank Farm to Packhorse Inn (NZ 1819 5700)
Crossed valley on a bridge 30m by 10m (NZ 1766 5666)
Low battery in Burnopfield Wood (NZ 1779 5620) A 50m by 3m battery to Fortune Hill pit (NZ 1985 5658)
Crossed Wheatley Burn on a battery, later obliterated by Byermoor Colliery
A 50m by 8m battery across Bobgins Burn (NZ 1944 5663)
Site Type: Broad
Tramway Transport Site
SITEDESC
Marleyhill Wagonway. After the building of the Causey Arch, a number of branches were developed to exploit the Tanfield lease north and east of Tanfield village. These branches included: a Tanfield Branch from the Arch to Tanfield Colliery; a Tanfield Leith Branch that followed the Causey Burn upstream before heading for Tantobie; a Tanfield Lea Branch along the west bank of the Causey Burn from North Causey around 1755. After the merging of the Tanfield and Western Ways around 1800 all these branches disappeared. The old Tanfield Lea Waggonway was bought in 1836 by the Brandling Junctoin Railway and restored it to the Redheugh terminus. It later gave rise to the North Eastern Railway’s Tanfield Branch, which survived until closure in 1964. The branch lay in Bowes’ Northbanks and Marley Hill land and joined the Tanfield Way at Bowes Bridge. It appears on a plan of 1728, with a likely railhead near Pickering Nook. The Tanfield Moor Branch had a long, but not continuous, existence. Around 1800 it was used to convert the Western and Tanfield Ways into a single system; later it became the backbone of the Pontop and Jarrow Railway and as such survived in the 20th century. There are a confusing number of different branches to Axwell’s estate of Beckley. It was twice joined to the Western Way and twice to Tanfield. The colliery was won in 1725 and was at that time joined to both Western Ways at the end of Crookgate Bridge. Beckley closed in May 1726, so the link with the Western Way only lasted for one season. The colliery was then joined to the Tanfield Way. Beckley was important to the Grand Allies because it was a working colliery already in production and in its first four years of their lease it produced far more output than any of their other leases. North of Bobgins bridge there was a steep pull and this may have contributed to difficulties in optimising the output. A second waggonway entry was built from the south by two short branch lines, probably in 1729. Beckley was said to be almost worked out in 1739, and the branch must then have been lifted. It is possible that Beckley was once again joined to the Western Way in the 1740s. It was leased to the Grand Allies in 1748 for 14 years so the branches may have been reorganised once again.
Site Name
Marleyhill Wagonway
Site Type: Specific
Wagonway
HER Number
3713
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3713 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
G. Bennett, E. Clavering & A. Rounding, 1990, A Fighting Trade - Rail Transport in Tyne Coal 1600-1800
Northern Catholic History, 15, 10
Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL G/CP 1/145
Durham Records Office, D/CG 16/1706 40, 60, 95, 106, 116, 130
Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL G/CK 1/59 and GPL G/CK 1/66
Waggonways on South Bank of Tyne, Durham Records Office, D/St/P17/2
Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wear, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL CAB A1/10
W. Casson, 1801, Plan showing Collieries and Waggonways on the rivers Tyne and Wear, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL CAB A1/4
R.L. Galloway, 1898, of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade, volume 1, p 373 pp 373-4
Waggonways and Railways of North-West Durham, Durham Records Office, D/CG 6/1435
J.T.W. Bell, 1843, The Great Northern Coalfield, 2nd series
Dunstan Staiths and Waggonways, c.1810, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL BP 1/83
1723, Northbanks and proposed Tanfield Ways, 28 April 1723, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL CP/1/140
1742, Tanfield Moor Wagonways, Durham Records Office D/XP 14, Northumberland Records Office 960
1745, Waggonways in Beckley and Andrew's House c.1745, Durham Records Office, D/Bo/G 34 (iii)
1810, East and West Shield Row, 1810, Durham Records Office, D/Bo/G34 (xlii)
Catch Pit, Hutton Colliery Waggonway, mid 18th century, Durham Records Office, D/St/P13/4
1761, Tanfield Moor c.1729 - 1761, Northumberland Records Office, 17/197C 64, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL CAB A
1788, The Western and Tanfield Waggonways, Northumberland Records Office, 309M 231
Northumberland Records Office, 725/F2 268
Newcastle University Library, Misc 10 183-6
Northumberland Records Office, 309
Eng Rep, 24 780
Northumberland Records Office, NEIMME GA Minutes, vol 20, 107
Public Records Office, Chancery Lane, London, 18th century, 1081/16
Eng Rep, 22 611
Durham Records Office, D/CG 7/236-335
Northumberland Records Office, NEIMME Johnson, vol 2 1, vol 3 1
Durham Records Office, D/St B1/23/5
Northumberland Records Office, Buddle 14 251 et seq (fuller)
Publications of the Surtees Society, 178 226
Durham Records Office, D/St B1/23/5 35
Thom Pit accounts
A. Williams, 2004, A Fighting Trade - Review and mapping of routes; unpublished document for Tyne & Wear Heritage Environment Record
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
420590
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557620
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Marley Hill
Description
This Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.
Site Type: Broad
Mining Industry Site
SITEDESC
A Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857.
Site Name
Marley Hill, Shaft
Site Type: Specific
Mine Shaft
HER Number
3712
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3712 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
420370
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557480
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Marley Hill
Description
Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows a Clay Pit at this location.
Site Type: Broad
Mineral Extraction Site
SITEDESC
A Clay Pit.
Site Name
Marley Hill, Clay Pit
Site Type: Specific
Clay Pit
HER Number
3711
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3711 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
420210
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557770
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Marley Hill
Description
This Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.
Site Type: Broad
Mining Industry Site
SITEDESC
A Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857.
Site Name
Marley Hill, Shaft
Site Type: Specific
Mine Shaft
HER Number
3710
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3710 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
419590
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ15NE
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557290
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Marley Hill
Description
This Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.
Site Type: Broad
Mining Industry Site
SITEDESC
A Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857.
Site Name
Marley Hill, Shaft
Site Type: Specific
Mine Shaft
HER Number
3709
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3709 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
420080
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557600
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Marley Hill
Description
This Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.
Site Type: Broad
Mining Industry Site
SITEDESC
A Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857.
Site Name
Marley Hill, Shaft
Site Type: Specific
Mine Shaft
HER Number
3708
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3708 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
419890
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ15NE
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557750
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Marley Hill
Description
This Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.
Site Type: Broad
Mining Industry Site
SITEDESC
A Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857.
Site Name
Marley Hill, Shaft
Site Type: Specific
Mine Shaft
HER Number
3707
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3707 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Truman L.P.H
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
419650
EASTING2
0
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ15NE
MONTH1
8
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
557660
NORTHING2
0
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Marley Hill
Description
This Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.
Site Type: Broad
Mining Industry Site
SITEDESC
A Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1857.
Site Name
Marley Hill, Shaft
Site Type: Specific
Mine Shaft
HER Number
3706
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 3706 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6
YEAR1
1994
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