Derwent Haugh, Turn Wheel

HER Number

3470

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Derwent Haugh, Turn Wheel

Place

Derwent Haugh

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Water Wheel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A Turn Wheel is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, but it is unclear what exactly this is. Its precise location is also unclear. It is unlikely to have been a railway turntable as there is no associated railway line, so it is suggested as a water wheel because it is on the edge of Derwent Gut.

Easting

420190

Northing

562730

Grid Reference

NZ420190562730

Sources

<< HER 3470 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2