Painshaw Engine

HER Number

3079

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Painshaw Engine

Place

Penshaw

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Machinery

Site Type: Specific

Engine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The site of an Old Engine is marked at this point on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan. A nearby linear feature (HER ref. 3503) may have been a wagonway associated with this engine.

Easting

432410

Northing

554200

Grid Reference

NZ432410554200

Sources

<< HER 3079 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13