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Dunston Staiths is a late nineteenth-century coal shipping facility located on the River Tyne near Gateshead, Durham. Built in 1893-1895 to serve the collieries of the Tyne valley, the structure comprises a substantial timber-built loading pier and associated infrastructure designed to transfer coal from railway wagons directly into ships. The staiths represent a significant example of Victorian industrial engineering, employing innovative timber construction techniques to create a functional system that could handle the substantial coal exports that characterised the region's economy during the height of the coal trade. The monument survives as a notable testament to the engineering ambitions and commercial scale of late nineteenth-century industrial Britain, and remains an important record of the technological solutions developed to facilitate the rapid handling and export of mineral resources.
DUNSTON STAITHS is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005898. View the official record →
Dunston Staiths is a late nineteenth-century coal shipping facility located on the River Tyne near Gateshead, Durham. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005898.
DUNSTON STAITHS is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1005898.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Closegate and Water Tower (1.7 km), Coal mining remains at Dunston Hill (1.8 km), Newcastle Swing Bridge (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of DUNSTON STAITHS's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
DUNSTON STAITHS stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.