Moor Edge Colliery

HER Number

2193

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Moor Edge Colliery

Place

Benton Square

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

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

Moor Edge Colliery is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan so must have opened after 1858. It was served by Killingworth Wagonway, and may have been related to an adjacent Air Shaft (HER ref. 2194).

Easting

429890

Northing

569370

Grid Reference

NZ429890569370

Sources

<< HER 2193 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SW