Brandling Waggonway
Brandling Waggonway
HER Number
17087
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Brandling Waggonway
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
This waggonway may have been in operation by 1676. It is shown on a map of 1730, on Gibson's Map of the Collieries of 1787 and on Bell's Map of 1843. It ran from coal pits in the Carr Hill area of Felling Royalty owned by the Brandling family to Felling Staith on the south bank of the River Tyne.
Easting
426800
Northing
561280
Grid Reference
NZ426800561280
Sources
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 45) 169; Gibson, 1787, Map of Coalfield;