1797 incident in which an English craft grounded on the Herd Sand on arriving at Shields from London, but was shortly afterwards recovered; a wooden sailing vessel.

1823 wreck of English sloop which stranded on the Herd Sand, having left Sunderland during a gale; a wooden sailing vessel. Crew saved by lifeboat.
Master: Smith

24th January 1841 wreck of Scottish craft which stranded on the Herd Sand. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel.

This Norwegian vessel drove ashore on Herd Sand in ENE force 7 wind conditions, with fog and rain, for want of sufficient seamen to make sail and work the ship. She went ashore at 8pm on a quarter ebb, £1,200 being the estimated loss on the vessel, which was uninsured, as was her cargo, valued at £10,000.

Built: 1848
Master: H J Pavel
Crew: 12
Crew Lost: 6

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1856. By the second edition of 1896 it is named Harraton Hall. Still present in 1967. Destroyed for the construction of the A195. Harraton Outside is mentioned in a lease dated 1730 which lists 'the Garth, tithes of corn, hay and others on the grounds in Harraton and Harraton Outside in the parish of Chester-le-Street, in the occupation of George Reay, William Wheldon and Thomas Dennison'. The Hall was in existence by the 1770s. The land owner was the Earl of Durham.

Shown on Oliver 1851. Next to waggonway HER 14892. In 1730 John Thorald (later 8th baronet Sir John Thorald) married Elizabeth Ayton of West Herrington. The Thorald family were from Marston (later Syston), Lincolnshire. Harraton Outside Colliery is mentioned in minutes dated 1727-1730 of the Grand Allies Partnership. Two letters dated 1764 and 1770 to Sir John Thorald also mention the colliery at 'Harroten Outside'. A lease dated to the 1770s made between Sir John Thorald of Syston Park and Ralph Milbanke of Halnaby discusses mines and quarries and the right to built houses for colliers and quarrymen. Sir John Thorold was tenant in common with Ralph Milbank and Sir Francis Blake Bart (who married Isabel Ayton before 1734). A lease of 1778 between John's widow Dame Elizabeth Thorald and Ralph Milbanke describes the right to 'dig, sink, rid, win, work and make pitts, shafts, staples, trenches, groves, and to make or drive, drifts, watergates, watercourses as well for the winning working and getting of coals from the soil'.

Shown on Oliver 1851. Harraton Outside Colliery is mentioned in minutes dated 1727-1730 of the Grand Allies Partnership. Two letters dated 1764 and 1770 to Sir John Thorald also mention the colliery at 'Harroten Outside'. A lease dated to the 1770s made between Sir John Thorald of Syston Park and Ralph Milbanke of Halnaby (near Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire) discusses mines and quarries and the right to built houses for colliers and quarrymen. Sir John Thorold was tenant in common with Ralph Milbank and Sir Francis Blake Bart (who married Isabel Ayton before 1734). A lease of 1778 between John's widow Dame Elizabeth Thorald and Ralph Milbanke describes the right to 'dig, sink, rid, win, work and make pitts, shafts, staples, trenches, groves, and to make or drive, drifts, watergates, watercourses as well for the winning working and getting of coals from the soil'. Ralph Milbanke married Judith Noel, sister of Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth (of Kirkby Mallory Hall, Leicestershire) in 1777. In 1798 Ralph became the 6th Baronet Milbanke.

Shown on Oliver 1851.

Part of Humble's waggonway from Birtey Fell to Fatfield staiths established in 1741. Shown on Gibson's map of 1788, Hobson 1839, Bell 1843 and the first edition Ordnance Survey of 1856. Shown on Gibson's map of 1788, Hobson 1839, Bell 1843 and the first edition Ordnance Survey of 1856. In 2009 three phases of timber waggonway were archaeologically excavated on the Dunlop Tyres site by Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1896.