Fatfield Waggonway

HER Number:
3018

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Fatfield Waggonway

Place:
Fatfield

Map Sheet:
NZ25SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Part of Humble's waggonway established in 1741 to transport coal from pits on Birtley Common to a staith at Fatfield. In 1754, the line was taken up by Thomas Donnison to move coal from South Birtley Colliery. It became a major main way with branches to North Birtley, Black Fell, Harraton Boundary Moor (HER 14891) and Harraton Outside (HER 2547). The Fatfield section ran from near to the North Eastern Railway, Pontop and South Shields Line (HER ref. 2290), where it joined the south end of another Wagonway (HER ref. 3010) to the Fatfield Staiths (HER ref. 3037).

Easting:
2950

Northing:
5437

Grid Reference:
NZ29505437

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3018 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; William Colling Hobson, 1839, Map of the county palatine of Durham; John Thomas William Bell, 1843, Plan of part of the Tyne and Wear coal districts in the County of Durham; Tithe map of Harraton in the Parish of Chester-le-Street, 1847; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 77/77a) p172