Tyne and Wear HER(17094): Flatt's/Allen's Waggonway - Details
17094
Outside
Flatt's/Allen's Waggonway
Harraton
NZ25SE
Transport
Tramway Transport Site
Wagonway
POST MEDIEVAL
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Documentary Evidence
A waggonway to easily accessible coal seams at Flatts, north- west of Chester-le-Street on land owned by Thomas Allan was in use by about 1690. The line also ran across land owned by John Hedworth in Harraton and reached the north bank of the River Wear at Fatfield. The waggonway is shown on a map of 1746
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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 71) p160, 172; NEIMME: Watson 22/1; NRO PSAN/BEQ/9/1/3/42 and 54