High Spen, waggonway

HER Number

11639

District

Gateshead

Site Name

High Spen, waggonway

Place

High Spen

Map Sheet

NZ16SW

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Railway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery Railway

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

20th Century 1901 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Levelled Earthwork

Description

Waggonway linking the spoil heap of Tilley Drift (HER 6948) to collieryand spoil heaps (HER 11655). Seen on air photographs of 1947.

Easting

413690

Northing

560390

Grid Reference

NZ413690560390

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1442688; Aerial Photograph RAF CPE/UK/2352 3218 04-OCT-1947