Rush Pit

HER Number

3013

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Rush Pit

Place

Harraton

Map Sheet

NZ25SE

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

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows Rush Pit (Coal) at this location.

Easting

429690

Northing

554600

Grid Reference

NZ429690554600

Sources

<< HER 3013 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; William Oliver, 1851, Map of the coalfield of Northumberland and Durham