Coal Staiths (Nesham's or Eden Main Staith)
Coal Staiths (Nesham's or Eden Main Staith)
HER Number
3084
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Coal Staiths (Nesham's or Eden Main Staith)
Place
Penshaw
Map Sheet
NZ35SW
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Water Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Staith
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Coal Staiths (Nesham's Staith later Eden Main Staith), on the Wear at Painshaw, at the northern end of the Londonderry Railway, (HER 3081). Depicted on Burleigh and Thompson's 1737 map operated by John Hylton and John Nesham, later by Nesham alone (by 1775). Still shown on 1862 OS plan connected to rail tracks.
Easting
431210
Northing
553990
Grid Reference
NZ431210553990
Sources
<< HER 3084 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1862, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2015, Penshaw: not just a monument; Burliegh and Thompson, 1737, Plan of Penshaw and South Biddick Staithes, DRO D/XP/64