A 57Fe Moessbauer study of the Fe2O3–WO3 and Fe2O3–Cr2O3–WO3 systems has been carried out. Single phase materials could be prepared having the composition Fe2−xWO6−3x/2 (x = 0.28), the stoichiometric Fe2WO6 always contained detectable amounts of α-Fe2O3. The iron tungstates are found to be unstable to prolonged heating at 1000 °C. The Cr2−yFeyWO6 (0 < y ≤ 2) system was shown to be of the trirutile type when y ≤ 1.7 but multiphasic when y ≥ 1.7, these latter phases have structures based upon the iron and chromium tungstate phases, respectively. The Moessbauer parameters for the Cr2−xFeyWO6 compositions do not appear to behave in the same fashion as the related Fe2−xCrxTeO6 system.