Welcome to the Waggonway* Research Circle WebSite
This is a web Site created to cover the Industrial Archaeology surrounding the development of the early British waggonway (or wagonway)*. These wagonways, or wagonways, were originally made of wood, later evolving into iron L plate tramways or what we today regard as a railway with iron rails.
The Site has a particular bias at present to the history of the World's first recorded cross-country overland waggonway, (the Wollaton waggonway of 1605) and Huntingdon Beaumont the man who built it.
Notes
(1) *We decided to spell waggonway with the double g as used the North East of England but it can also be spelt with the single g as wagonway if you prefer.
(2) The WRC thank Strelley Systems Business Centres for their recent sponsorship of WRC activities.