Felling Way I (Carr Hill Way)
Felling Way I (Carr Hill Way)
HER Number
3541
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Felling Way I (Carr Hill Way)
Place
Heworth
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Tramway Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Wagonway
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
After the building of Chopwell Way, the next waggonway was Carr Hill Way to Felling Staith. The plan of 1728 implies a date in the 1670s although the line shown extending to Carr Hill in eastern Gateshead is unlikely to be that of Robert Brandling built around 1676. His waggonway is probably the most westerly of a fan of abandoned waggonways that ran from a line of old pits and is shown on a plan of the 1830s running to Felling Staith. Felling Wagonway (as shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map) ran to Felling Drops, (SMR 3540), from Felling Colliery and the North Eastern Railway. This line was opened in 1810 by the Blacketts to serve Felling Colliery. It was laid with iron rails by Anthony Errington, on the line of part of the old Carr Hill Way.
Easting
428130
Northing
563070
Grid Reference
NZ428130563070
Sources
<< HER 3541 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3
Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 1, p 155
G. Bennett, E. Clavering & A. Rounding, 1990, A Fighting Trade - Rail Transport in Tyne Coal 1600-1800, vol 1, p73
Public Records Office, Chancery Lane, London, C6 333/11
Publications of the Surtees Society, 173, p14
Waggonways on South Bank of Tyne, Durham Records Office, D/St/P17/2
Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wear -Gateshead Library Local Studies GPL CAB A1/10
W. Casson, 1801, Plan showing Collieries and Waggonways on the rivers Tyne and Wear, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL CAB A1/4
1898, A map of the railways in the Newcastle on Tyne Coalfield in 1812 in Robert Galloway, Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal trade,
Plan of wagonways and railways of North-West Durham, Durham Records Office, D/CG 6/1435
1825, Felling (II, IV and Birtley II): Brandling Main Colliery c.1825, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL BP 3/211
W. Woodfield, 1791, Plan of Felling V
A. Williams, 2004, A Fighting Trade - Review and mapping of routes; unpublished document for Tyne & Wear Heritage Environment Record
Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 1, p 155
G. Bennett, E. Clavering & A. Rounding, 1990, A Fighting Trade - Rail Transport in Tyne Coal 1600-1800, vol 1, p73
Public Records Office, Chancery Lane, London, C6 333/11
Publications of the Surtees Society, 173, p14
Waggonways on South Bank of Tyne, Durham Records Office, D/St/P17/2
Plan of the Collieries on the Rivers Tyne and Wear -Gateshead Library Local Studies GPL CAB A1/10
W. Casson, 1801, Plan showing Collieries and Waggonways on the rivers Tyne and Wear, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL CAB A1/4
1898, A map of the railways in the Newcastle on Tyne Coalfield in 1812 in Robert Galloway, Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal trade,
Plan of wagonways and railways of North-West Durham, Durham Records Office, D/CG 6/1435
1825, Felling (II, IV and Birtley II): Brandling Main Colliery c.1825, Gateshead Library Local Studies, GPL BP 3/211
W. Woodfield, 1791, Plan of Felling V
A. Williams, 2004, A Fighting Trade - Review and mapping of routes; unpublished document for Tyne & Wear Heritage Environment Record