Biddick, Ellrington's Main Waggonway
Biddick, Ellrington's Main Waggonway
HER Number
17093
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Biddick, Ellrington's Main Waggonway
Place
Biddick
Map Sheet
NZ35SW
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 to a colliery a little way to the west of Cox Green at Worm Hill on the north bank of the River Wear. It was certainly in use by 1787, shown on Gibson’s Map of the Coalfield of that year.
Easting
431780
Northing
554390
Grid Reference
NZ431780554390
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 82); Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787