Wrekenton & Eighton Banks 1895

This very detailed map covers Wrekenton and Eighton Banks, south of Gateshead. Features include Chowdene Hall, Meadow Pit, Harlow Green, Team Colliery (Betty Pit), High Eighton, Team Colliery Wagonway, Wrekenton village with individual buildings neatly shown, Stormont Main Colliery (King Pit), Galloping Green, Blackim Hill, short stretch of Pontop & Jarrow Railway, Ouston & Pelaw Wagonway, Leam Head Quarries etc. Directories of Eighton Banks for 1894 and 1906 are included on the reverse.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). This edition published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett