Allotment Engine
Allotment Engine
HER Number
1143
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Allotment Engine
Place
Shiremoor
Map Sheet
NZ37SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Machinery
Site Type: Specific
Engine
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Allotment Engine with Coal Depot, opened by 1821 on the Backworth Wagonway (HER ref. 1113).
Easting
431490
Northing
570220
Grid Reference
NZ431490570220
Sources
<< HER 1143 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89
C. R. Warn, 1976, Wagonways & Early Railways of Northumberland, 1605-1840 p.49
C. R. Warn, 1976, Wagonways & Early Railways of Northumberland, 1605-1840 p.49