Hebburn Colliery A Pit

HER Number

2235

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Hebburn Colliery A Pit

Place

Hebburn

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

This site is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan associated with wagonway sidings, a smithy and a ballast hill. The site used the C Pit Wagonway (HER ref. 2231).

Easting

431450

Northing

565410

Grid Reference

NZ431450565410

Sources

1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham 3; St. James' Heritage & Environment Group and the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 2012, Waiting at the Pit Head - Coal Mining Disasters on Tyneside (leaflet)