Fortune Pit

Fortune Pit

HER Number

3025

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Fortune 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 Fortune Pit (Coal) at this location.

Easting

429740

Northing

553490

Grid Reference

NZ429740553490

Sources

<< HER 3025 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13