Willington Colliery, Millbank Pit

HER Number

1170

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Willington Colliery, Millbank Pit

Place

Willington

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Millbank Pit appears on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map but is not shown on the 2nd edition, so had presumably ceased operations by 1894/5. Opened on 23 February 1775 by Messrs Bell & Co.

Easting

431900

Northing

568700

Grid Reference

NZ431900568700

Sources

<< HER 1170 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; T. Hair, 1844, Views of the collieries in the counties of Northumberland and Durham