Tyne and Wear HER(2024): Percy Main, Wagonway - Details
2024
N Tyneside
Percy Main, Wagonway
Percy Main
NZ36NW
Transport
Tramway
Wagonway
Early Modern
C19?
Documentary Evidence
A Wagonway, marked 'Old' on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use before 1858. It was probably associated with Percy Main Colliery (HER ref. 2023) and may have extended as far as Howdon Old Pit (HER ref. 1178).
3368
6696
NZ33686696
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