Tyne and Wear HER(10801): Fenham, St. Nicholas Cemetery, Smuggler's Hole - Details
10801
Newcastle
Fenham, St. Nicholas Cemetery, Smuggler's Hole
Fenham
NZ26NW
Industrial
Mine Drainage and Ventilation Site
Mine Shaft
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Shown on Ordnance Survey First Edition. Within the cemetery was the Smugglers Hole, a former mine shaft in which two illicit stills (“about 200 gallons of wash, a long brick chimney and complete distillery apparatus” worth £50) were found in 1822.
2276
6508
NZ22766508
Shown on Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1864; Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, pp 27-28