Walbottle Moor Waggonway
Walbottle Moor Waggonway
HER Number
15353
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Walbottle Moor Waggonway
Place
Walbottle
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
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 short waggonway running north from Cut End to an unnamed coal pit.
Warn shows it as Walbottle Moor Pit but this is not certainly so. Gibson’s 1787 plan of the routes which names Walbottle Moor suggests a different location for the pit.
Warn shows it as Walbottle Moor Pit but this is not certainly so. Gibson’s 1787 plan of the routes which names Walbottle Moor suggests a different location for the pit.
Easting
416620
Northing
567940
Grid Reference
NZ416620567940
Sources
Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; Gibson, 1787, Plan of the Collieries of the Rivers Tyne and Wear; CR Warn, 1976, Waggonways and Early Railways of Northumberland 1605-1840, p 52