High Spen, colliery

HER Number

11655

District

Gateshead

Site Name

High Spen, colliery

Place

High Spen

Map Sheet

NZ16SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Levelled Earthwork

Description

20th century colliery with associated waggonway (HER 11639), buildings and spoil heaps visible as earthworks on air photographs of 1947. Mostly levelled by 1977. Post medieval ridge and furrow (HER 11622) still surrounds the spoil heaps.

Easting

413870

Northing

560020

Grid Reference

NZ413870560020

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1442688; Aerial Photograph RAF CPE/UK/2352 3218 04-OCT-1947