Killingworth New Line to Wallsend
Killingworth New Line to Wallsend
HER Number
15351
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Killingworth New Line to Wallsend
Place
Killingworth
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
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 new route to the River Tyne for Killingworth Waggonway (route 59) was opened in around 1820. It turned sharply to the south at Rising Sun Farm to staiths at Wallsend adjacent to Wallsend G or Church Pit.
Easting
430190
Northing
569020
Grid Reference
NZ430190569020
Sources
Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; Bell 1847-1851: Maps of the Great Northern Coalfield, Northumberland; Ordnance Survey First Edition 1858; CR Warn, 1976, Waggonways and Early Railways of Northumberland 1605-1840, p 49, route 48