Backworth Wagonway, West Holywell Branch
Backworth Wagonway, West Holywell Branch
HER Number
1109
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Backworth Wagonway, West Holywell Branch
Place
Backworth
Map Sheet
NZ37SW
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
Branch from the "Old Coal Pits" (HER 1108). This line was abandoned by 1860. In the 1970s the stone blocks which supported the rails were still in-situ. Now cleared.
Easting
430710
Northing
572530
Grid Reference
NZ430710572530
Sources
<< HER 1109 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; John Elliott & Derek Charlton, 1994, Backworth - An Illustrated History of the Mines and Railways