Old Cumbria Gazetteer - tramroad, Whingill Collieries

tramroad, Whingill Collieries

possible

locality:-

Whingill Collieries

locality:-

David Pit

locality:-

Davy Pit

locality:-

George Pit

locality:-

James's Pit

civil parish:-

Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

tramroad (?)

locality type:-

track

coordinates:-

NX97551852 (etc)

1Km square:-

NX9718

10Km square:-

NX91

references:-

Donald 1774

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Waggon Road

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D49718M.jpg

hearsay:-

Coal was brought on a wooden waggonway from Whingill Collieries to Bransty, a ¼mile (?), and from there by cart the short distance to the harbour. The waggonway had been considered in 1738, but was not built till 1754, by Carlisle Spedding. He planned to continue the line by a bridge over the turnpike road, the Bransty Arch. Carlisle Spedding died in a mine explosion, 1755, and the bridge was not opened till 1803.

Lewis, M J T: 1970: Early Wooden Railways: Routlegde and Kegan Paul (London):: ISBN 0 7100 7818 8
Joy, David: 1983 & 1990: Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain &Lake Counties, The: David and Charles (Newton Abbot, Devon)

places:-

NX97431848 Bransty Arch (Whitehaven) gone

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