Claxton's Wagonway
Claxton's Wagonway
HER Number
4126
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Claxton's Wagonway
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
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
This line is shown on a map of 1770 running from a pit within the Claxton estate. Turnbull notes that the line was later used as a branch of the Sheriff Hill waggonway serving Sheriff Hill Colliery.
Easting
426170
Northing
562980
Grid Reference
NZ426170562980
Sources
<< HER 4126 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3
1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 49) 158, 169; TWAS: SANT/BEQ/9/1/3/1; TWAS: DT/Bell/2/143; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear
1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 49) 158, 169; TWAS: SANT/BEQ/9/1/3/1; TWAS: DT/Bell/2/143; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear