Chance Pit

Chance Pit

HER Number

2014

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Chance Pit

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows Chance Pit (Coal) at this location.

Easting

434370

Northing

568030

Grid Reference

NZ434370568030

Sources

<< HER 2014 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89