Dial Cottage, West Moor

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Dial Cottage, West Moor

Image: © Anthony Foster Taken: 7 Dec 2015

For 18 years between 1804 and 1822 the cottage was the home of George Stephenson and his son Robert. Above the front door is a sundial Image which they made in 1816, and from which the cottage takes its name. George began building steam locomotives in a colliery workshop behind the cottage. In 1814 he tested his first engine 'Blucher' along the nearby Killingworth Waggonway Image As many as 16 locomotives may have been built in the workshop.

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Image Location

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Latitude
55.027559
Longitude
-1.571978