Harraton, Joliffe's Waggonway

HER Number

17098

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Harraton, Joliffe's Waggonway

Place

Harraton

Map Sheet

NZ25SE

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

By the 1760s, the Flatts Waggonway (HER 17094) ran on a curving route through Harraton and to Fatfield avoiding land within the Peareth Estate. A new staith had also been built at Fatfield owned by the Hedworths.

Easting

430354

Northing

554016

Grid Reference

NZ430354554016

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 71J) p160 & 171; NRO: Brown collection SANT/BEQ/9/1/3/43