This very detailed map covers the northern part of Birtley.
Features include Bowes Railway, Pelaw Main Wagonway, Vale Pit (disused), North Side, Dunkirk, Longbank Quarry, Elizabethville area, Eighton Lodge, Long Acre, etc. On the reverse we include a section of the earlier1895 map, before Elizabethville was developed.
Co Durham Sheet 13.01 Birtley 1895 - published 1982, 2nd edition 2013; intro by Alan Godfrey. ISBN.978-1-84784-704-1
This detailed map covers Birtley, just north of Chester-le-Street but today within Gateshead MBC.
Features include NER railway with station, Pelaw Main Wagonway, Birtley Iron Works, Bewicke Main Wagonway, Ouston Colliery E Pit, various sidings, several brick works, Leafield House, Birtley Hall, St John's church, Birtley House, St Joseph's RC church, White House, Portobello, Blackfell Engine etc. We include an 1894 directory of Birtley on the reverse.