West Boldon, Quarries

HER Number

2566

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

West Boldon, Quarries

Place

West Boldon

Map Sheet

NZ36SW

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

These quarries are marked as ‘Old’ on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, so must have gone out of use before 1895.

Easting

435360

Northing

560120

Grid Reference

NZ435360560120

Sources

<< HER 2566 >> 2nd edition, Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7, NE