Waygate


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Way´gate`


n.1.The tailrace of a mill.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The "pigs" were conveyed along a steep waygate track to Richmond, via Fremington and Marske in Swaledale, by strings of "Jagger Galloway" packhorses whose wooden saddles bore one hundredweight on either side, thence by wagon to Yarm or Stockton.
The idyllic dale that was once a hub of industry; A Captain Vickers attempted to revive the Old Gang workings but abandoned the venture soon after Joseph Sunter was crushed to death by a pony-hauled tub in 1926
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