Walker Wagonway

HER Number

4211

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Walker Wagonway

Place

Walker

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Tramway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Wagonway

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Wagonway is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, indicating that it had been abandoned by 1858.

Easting

429270

Northing

565710

Grid Reference

NZ429270565710

Sources

<< HER 4211 >> 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