Meggitt's Lane

Image: © Mick Garratt Taken: 15 Jul 2009

This must be a very old Right of Way pre-dating the ICI complex built in the late 1940s. According to http://sites.google.com/site/waggonways/nz/55/nz5520 it is shown as a road on a 1857 map. It is still designated a Public Bridleway but largely overgrown and unused. This website: http://www.historyofdormanstown.0catch.com/dormanstown.htm.historypage%201.htm says that "there was a railway track from the Upleatham mines to the steelworks, until the ironstone ceased to be produced; it then became a rough, ancient pathway from the nearby village of Wilton, to the Fleet end of Dormanstown, known as Meggits Lane." This contradicts the information on the Waggon Ways website. This shows a tram way from the Upleatham Mines (Image) due north to join the Stockton and Darlington Railway at Ryehills Farm. The Waggon Ways map does indicate a tramway from Kirkleatham Mine (Image) but going parallel to Meggit's Lane (about half way across the field in this photo Image]). Furthermore Dormanstown was not built until the 1920s and the lane is not on a direct route from Wilton village (Image).

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