Crawcrook Way to Stella waggonway
Crawcrook Way to Stella waggonway
HER Number
17081
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Crawcrook Way to Stella waggonway
Place
Crawcrook
Map Sheet
NZ16SE
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
From 1705, the Crawcrook Way (HER 17080) gained a staith to the west of Stella Hall supplied via a new branch line.
Easting
415520
Northing
564280
Grid Reference
NZ415520564280
Sources
Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear; Bennett et al 1990, A Fighting Trade - Rail Transport in Tyne Coal 1600-1800, vol 1: 49, 148 vol 2: 20; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 70) 155, 171; NRO: PSAN/BEQ/9/1/3/94