Laidler's Pit

HER Number

16808

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Laidler's Pit

Place

Penshaw

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

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

Coal pit (two shafts) shown in Keelman's Field, Penshaw on the 1775 Tempest estate map as two adjacent bell pit shafts. Formed part of Pensher Colliery. Laidler's Pit labelled on Bell's Coalfield Map 1843 but not on the 1st edition OS. May have actually been out of use by 1820 superseded by the D (HER 3099) and E pits (HER 3107) at White Field and Wharton Row (later Shiney Row).

Easting

431850

Northing

553750

Grid Reference

NZ431850553750

Sources

The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2015, Penshaw: not just a monument; Tempest Estate Map, 1775, DRO NCB 1/X/227;