Walbottle, coal pits

HER Number:
11557

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walbottle, coal pits

Place:
Walbottle

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Mineral Pit

Site Type: Specific:
Coal Workings

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A plan of 1620 shows three coal pits within an arable field called 'midle shelf under the wall' [a reference to Hadrian's Wall]. To the north of Walbottle village, centred on NZ 1756 6782 is 'Newburne, Walbottle and Butterlaw Comon' which is annotated 'here did the coales burne in the Earth many years together'. A field called 'Barston Pittes' (centred on NZ 1812 6645) also suggests coal mining activity.

Easting:
1826

Northing:
6602

Grid Reference:
NZ18266602

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
A plan of the manor of Newburn, 1620, Alnwick Castle Archives Class O, Div. xvii, No. 1