Washington Mill Pit

HER Number

2615

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Washington Mill Pit

Place

Washington

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

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

Mill Pit is marked as an ‘Old Coal Pit’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.

Easting

428800

Northing

556930

Grid Reference

NZ428800556930

Sources

<< HER 2615 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7