Blaydon Burn, aerial cableway

HER Number

5989

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Blaydon Burn, aerial cableway

Place

Blaydon Burn

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mine Lifting and Winding Structure

Site Type: Specific

Aerial Ropeway

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map. Some of the concrete piers which carried the cable survive, with metal fittings and rails on top.

Easting

416810

Northing

562330

Grid Reference

NZ416810562330

Sources

<<HER 5989>> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map