Wagonway to Fawdon Colliery Staiths

HER Number

2090

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Wagonway to Fawdon Colliery Staiths

Place

Wallsend

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

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

A fan of waggonways running to staiths within Wallsend and serving a number of collieries including Fawdon. Shown on an un-sourced map of 1811 in Turnbull 2012 (route 17).

Easting

429730

Northing

566110

Grid Reference

NZ429730566110

Sources

<< HER 2090 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne: Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project 2011-12; Bell 1847-1851: Maps of the Great Northern Coalfield, Northumberland; Turnbull, L. 2012 Railways Before George Stephenson (route 17)