Old Engine shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Old Quarry, extents unclear. Not shown on 1st edn mapping.

Sand Pit, close to location of Coastguard Lookout.

Toll Road to Blyth. Leaves Tyne & Wear at NZ3418 7570, at Hartley.

St Marys Lighthouse, on St. Mary's or Bait Island. Built in 1897/8 the lighthouse is 126ft tall. A chapel occupied the site in the medieval period and burned a light in its sanctuary as a warning to mariners. Although the chapel was dedicated to St. Helen, all guiding light are in the care of St. Mary. The present light went out of use in 1984 and is now part of a visitor centre {1}. Work started on the lighthouse in 1896 after several large ships, including the Gothenburg City, were wrecked on the rocks. It cost £8000. The kerosene lamp was first lit on 31st August 1898 by the two daughters of the builder, Mr J. Livingstone Miller. The lighthouse is built of brick covered in cement. The tower was not painted until September 1900. The iconic structure is painted white with green highlighting the window frames and doors. Trinity House took down the original passageway linking the tower and the dwellings, when the light was automated in the late 1970s. English Heritage - a striking landmark from sea and shore. A good example of a later C19 lighthouse. Designed by Sir Thomas Matthews, engineer-in-chief to the Trinity House Board. Has all the hallmarks of a C19 lighthouse - tall tower, glazed lantern, metal balustrade, domed metal roof and weather vane. Intact apart from the loss of window frames. Interior retains the corkscrew staircase and curved oak cupboard in lower service room. The lamp room retains original vents but the original oil lantern was lost when the lighthouse was automated. A smaller oil lantern from Withernsea Lighthouse has been installed. The lighthouse and cottages (HER 9428) compare well with other listed examples - Hale Head Lighthouse and Pendeen Lighthouse, the latter also designed by Matthews. Messrs J. Tweddle and Co of Newcastle provided the ironwork. The lighthouse was converted to electricity in 1977 and the kerosene lamp removed to the Penzance lighthouse museum. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1984. It is now a museum.
The lighthouse and the cottages were listed Grade II in 2012.

Constructed in 1855 for the Whittle Dene Water Company to extract river water, using a pumping engine of c. 1832 previously used in Newcastle for the same purpose. This engine, probably a modified Cornish type by Robert Hawthorn and Company, was replaced by two new Barclay 'grasshopper' engines in 1866 although by 1884 these seem to have been on standby to supplement the delivery from Wylam Station. Only the engine and boiler house remain, used for storage; stone built with slated hipped roofs. {1} As pollution in the river Tyne increased it was found necessary to move the pumping station from Elswick further upstream. So in 1855 the engine was dismantled, converted to a double acting cycle to increase its output, and rebuilt at Newburn in the building still standing there. In 1862 filters were built at Newburn and the engine raised the water from the river, through the filters and then into a sump whence it was pumped to supply. As the demand for water increased, so it was found necessary to augment the supply taken from the river at Newburn and in 1866 2 new engines were installed. These were manufactured by Barclays of Kilmarnock. They were known as 'grasshopper' or 'rocking beam' engines because they were pivoted at one end. To increase further the supply of water, a pumping station was constructed at Wylam in 1873. {2} Converted into a public house (Keelman) by the Big Lamp Brewery in 1996

The remains of a set of beehive coke ovens situated within the Newburn Riverside Park. The ovens were built by the Throckley Coal Company which was formed in 1867, principally by Messrs. Stephenson, firebrick manufacturers and Messrs. Spencer, Newburn steel manufacturers. The sinking of the Isabella Colliery began in 1867 and the construction of the coke ovens in 1869. 22 ovens were built at a cost of £260, the embankment and necessary retaining walls for the attendant railway line costing a further £132. In 1875 a further 22 were constructed and in 1878 a disintegrator for crushing the coal was installed. In 1890 a further 20 ovens were added. Straw and loam were used in the ovens to build up the high temperatures. Not surprisingly the ovens were constructed using bricks from Stephenson's brickworks and the main market for the coke was Spencer's Newburn Steel Works and the Solway Haematite Iron Company. Beehive ovens fell out of favour in the 20th century when by-products allowed the collection of the lucrative gases and by-products which were lost in the older style oven. The Throckley ovens are now fragmentary remains and are constantly reduced by intrusive vegetation and vandalism. {1}

A surviving masonry skew bridge formerly carrying the Wylam Waggonway over the New Burn. Probably mid to late 18th century.

A 5 mile long waggonway linking Wylam Colliery with staithes at Lemington, thought to have been built in 1748 and possibly to the design of William Brown of Throckley for John Blackett. Running for a large part parallel to the river bank the waggonway was level and built to a wide 5 ft gauge with originally timber rails (3.5" wide, 4.5" deep) attached to stone sleepers at 18" intervals. The timber rails were replaced with iron plate-way rails in 1808. The Wylam wagonway was the scene of a successful attempt to employ steam as motive-power on railways. In 1811 oxen might have been pulling the wagons, by 1813 locomotive engines were doing similar work over the same ground. Indeed, the waggonway was the scene of some of the early locomotive experiments, notably those of Thomas Hedley in 1813. Between 1827-30 the old plate-way was replaced with cast-iron fish-bellied rails that were 4ft between centres. William Hedley built at least three engines for the Wylam tramroad - the "Old Duchess" (now in South Kensington Museum), "Puffing Billy" (now in the Museum of Science and Arts at Edinburgh) and the "Lady Mary" (scrapped) - these engines continued in use until 1862. Following the closure of Wylam Colliery in 1868, the wagonway saw little use, until it was incorporated into the Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway completed in July 1875. At this time colliery waste was dumped directly over the Wylam Wagonway, after the ironwork had been dismantled, to create an embankment up to 1m high. The railway worked until March 1968, and the tracks were lifted in April 1972 when the route became a bridleway.

Originates from c. 1796 when the previous post-mill blew down. In 1828 John Storey is recorded as the miller here, and the mill is shown on OS 1st ed. map of c. 1860 as a corn mill. Also marked is a path from Mill Lane, bending round the boundaries of the field and leading to the mill. Must have closed before 1879, and is shown as disused on OS map of 1896. Its last use was in the 2nd World War when the Observer Corps used it as a lookout post. Restoration scheme took place in 1991/2, when the blocked doors and windows were opened, the floors and stairs reinstated, and cap, fantail and skeleton sails installed. Inside only a fireplace on the ground floor and a single timber beam survive, and the restoration included the installation of an iron windshaft and timber brake wheel within the cap {1}. Erected in 1790 Whitburn Mill's stone shell stands on a grassy mound on the west side of Mill Lane. The wall is built of coursed, roughly squared silver grey limestone blocks and shows evidence of consolidation immediately below the massive blackened sandstone coping course, which may or may nor be original. There are entrances on both north and south elevations with windows over at first and second floor levels. All the openings are crudely sealed with large blocks of warm coloured sandstone. The cap and sails have not survived and appear to have been replaced by a flat roof. The masonry at the base of the tower has been unsympathetically pointed in a smooth dense cement mortar {9}.