Hebburn, Coke Ovens

HER Number

2225

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Hebburn, Coke Ovens

Place

Hebburn

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Fuel Production Site

Site Type: Specific

Coke Oven

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan of 1856 shows what may have been 4 batteries of coke ovens. The 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan shows a Lead Works on this site (HER ref. 2507), so the ovens must have been out of use by 1895.

Easting

430280

Northing

565270

Grid Reference

NZ430280565270

Sources

<< HER 2225 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham , 3