Newburn, coal mines

HER Number

1309

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Newburn, coal mines

Place

Newburn

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A coal mine, paying 40s rent, is listed as part of the manor in 1367. Later, in his rental of the manor in 1499/1500, John Cartington listed "A subterranean coal mine, rent 106s 8d, in the lord's hand". Its location is unknown. There were further references to mines at Newburn in the 17th century.

Easting

416737

Northing

565235

Grid Reference

NZ416737565235

Sources

<< HER 1309 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Newburn and Newburn Hall Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, 34 and 145-8; Cal. Pat. Rolls 1330-1334, pp 34, 261; Cal. Pat. Rolls 1330-1334, p 390; WH Knowles, 1915, Newburn Hall and Manor House, Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 3, Vol XII, p 197; Surtees Society, 1909, vol. CXVII, The Percy Chartulary, p 273; Syon House Archives, London A/11/3a quoted in MH Dodds 1930, p 146; ME James, 1955, Estate Accounts of the Earls of Northumberland 1562-1637, Surtees Society, vol CLXIII, xlv, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii; Leases 1608-1610, Syon House Archives Q/ii/52; Chanery Proc. Series ii, 320/41 in Dodds 1930, 147; Mayson's Survey 1613, Alnwick Castle Archives A/iv/2; Syon House Archives Lease no date, C/x/2c; Lease, no date, Q/ii/127; Lease of 1615, Q/ii/116; A Plan of the Manor of Newburn, 1620, Alnwick Castle Archives O/xvii/1; Rental of 1622 and 1625, Syon House Archives A/ii/11a; Cal. State Papers Dom, 1638-9, 483 in Knowles 1915, 198; Rental of 1685, Alnwick Castle Archives B/i/3 in Dodds 1930, 149