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Original Text (Annotation: EAW036974 / 1139603)
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This difficult to see line was actually a little burn running through a little valley locally known as 'the dip'. The water came from the lakes along this valley to St Bede's well. The stream originated in Wardley passing Burn Heads farm in Heeburn and then fed the lakes with water. The Ellison family had created embankments to form the lakes in the 1870s pos 1880s knowing the burn which previously ran across their farmland would fill them. After overflowing from the lakes the burn ran towards Jarrow where it ran into the river Don. From Bede's well the burn ran through a metal grid and continued on underground coming out at another little valley called Pig Stye Avenue. '