Union Pit

HER Number

16897

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Union Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

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

Pit shown on a plan in extracts from a minute book of George Johnson Throckley Collieries 1774-1775. Not shown on the First Edition plan.

Easting

415720

Northing

568140

Grid Reference

NZ415720568140

Sources

Extracts from minute book of George Johnson (1774-1775) Throckley Collieries (owned by Steve Grudgings)