Killingworth, Quarry

HER Number

2161

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Killingworth, Quarry

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Quarry, at the east end of Killingworth Village, first shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, so dates from after 1858.

Easting

428710

Northing

570900

Grid Reference

NZ428710570900

Sources

<< HER 2161 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, NW