Willington, Shaft

HER Number

2195

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Willington, Shaft

Place

Willington

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Mine Shaft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shaft, marked as ‘Old’ on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, so may have gone out of use before 1895.

Easting

431760

Northing

568340

Grid Reference

NZ431760568340

Sources

<< HER 2195 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SW