Colliery Row

English

Proper noun

Colliery Row

1. A western suburb of Houghton-le-Spring, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3249).
   • 1948 January and February, “Notes and News: Duke of Wellington's Early Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:

     Near the village of Vienna, now known as Colliery Row, a locomotive (probably one built by George Stephenson for the Hetton Coal Company, in 1822) was set in motion, and the Duke, "after examining minutely the nature and construction of the machine and its operation expressed himself highly gratified with it."

References

• List of places in Tyne and Wear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia