Fatfield, Peareth's Main Waggonway
Fatfield, Peareth's Main Waggonway
HER Number
17095
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Fatfield, Peareth's Main Waggonway
Place
Fatfield
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 waggonway one mile long running from Peareth’s Main colliery to a staith at Chartershaugh on the north bank of the River Wear. It is shown on Gibson’s Map of the Coalfield of 1787 but dates of opening and closure are not certain.
Easting
430918
Northing
553690
Grid Reference
NZ430918553690
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 76) p 161 and 172; Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787; Casson's Map of the Coalfield 1801; NRO SANT/9/1/3/48