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Rayleigh Drive, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE13 6AN

This wall mounted post box lies on the route of the old Great North Road and is beginning to show its age.

Metal post with attached metal plate by the B1318, in parish of Wideopen (North Tyneside District), Great North Road, by footpath in front of blue brick wall, on East side of road. Morpeth/Newcastle iron post, erected by the Cow-causey & Buckton-Burn turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : N / 6 : : M / 8¾ : (To Newcastle and Morpeth) Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1450225 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1450225 Milestone Society National ID: NB_NCMP06

Metal post with attached metal plate by the B1318, in parish of Wideopen (North Tyneside District), Great North Road, by footpath in front of blue brick wall, on East side of road. Morpeth/Newcastle iron post, erected by the Cow-causey & Buckton-Burn turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : N / 6 : : M / 8¾ : (To Newcastle and Morpeth) Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1450225 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1450225 Milestone Society National ID: NB_NCMP06

This milepost stands on the route of the old Great North Road and has suffered further damage since IA Davison passed this way in 2002 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6036014. The mileage to Morpeth has now been lost.

As this inscription states, the bridge over the Seaton Burn, over which the old Great North Road passes, was built in 1923. An earlier bridge stood here when the first Ordnance Survey Six-Inch map of the area was published in 1864. The reference to 'Six Mile' relates to the distance from here to Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Now a path, part of the National Cycle Network, this was a mineral railway serving the colliery at Seaton Burn.

The Seaton Burn waggonway was one of many http://www.tynelives.org.uk/stephenson/wagmap2.htm linking former coalmines in North Tyneside with the coal staithes on the Tyne. This view is taken near the northern end of the waggonway, looking south, where it crosses the Seaton Burn itself. Along with many other lengths of waggonway, this section has been converted into a cycle path in recent years and forms part of National Cycle Network, Regional Route 10 (the Reivers Cycle Route) http://www.cycle-n-sleep.co.uk/rinfo/map%20reivers.htm which links Tynemouth with Whitehaven via Kielder Forest and Carlisle. The uprights at the end of the railings have been fabricated from old gas bottles.

The Seaton Burn rises near Brunswick Village as the Hartley Burn before flowing into Big Waters (now a nature reserve, originally formed in the 1920's as a result of mining subsidence). Then from Little Waters, the burn flows broadly eastwards, eventually discharging into the North Sea at Seaton Sluice. In total the burn is 18.6 km long.

Wideopen, seen from the air.

The Seaton Burn waggonway was one of many http://www.tynelives.org.uk/stephenson/wagmap2.htm linking former coalmines in North Tyneside with the coal staithes on the Tyne. This view is taken near the northern end of the waggonway where it crosses the Old Great North Road (B1318) between Wideopen and Seaton Burn. Along with many other lengths of waggonway, this section has been converted into a cycle path in recent years and forms part of National Cycle Network, Regional Route 10 (the Reivers Cycle Route) http://www.cycle-n-sleep.co.uk/rinfo/map%20reivers.htm which links Tynemouth with Whitehaven via Kielder Forest and Carlisle.