Ryton, Wagonway
Ryton, Wagonway
HER Number
3315
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Ryton, Wagonway
Place
Ryton
Map Sheet
NZ16SW
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
This short length of wagonway is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1856. It may have been part of the Ryton Woodside Branch of the Crawcrook Wagonway. A Plan of Coomb Hills Farm at Woodside from 1795 shows that the Ryton Woodside Way bore north to meet the Crawcrook Way at Barmoor (see HER ref. 1806). The extant embankment west of Woodside Lane therefore did not belong to it but to the iron railway built in 1836 for the new Glebe Pit.
Easting
414660
Northing
563430
Grid Reference
NZ414660563430
Sources
<< HER 3315 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 1
Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 2, Map C and Plan 50
M. Fleck, 1795, A Plan of Coomb Hills Farm etc at Woodside -Durham Records Office EP/Ryt 2/6; 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 69A) 155, 171; Gibson's Map of the Collieries, 1787
Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 2, Map C and Plan 50
M. Fleck, 1795, A Plan of Coomb Hills Farm etc at Woodside -Durham Records Office EP/Ryt 2/6; 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 69A) 155, 171; Gibson's Map of the Collieries, 1787