New Penshaw Pit

HER Number

3097

District

Sunderland

Site Name

New Penshaw Pit

Place

Penshaw

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

New Painshaw Pit, sunk in 1792 and closed 1833. Depicted but not named on Bell's coalfield map of 1843. Tithe plan labels this area as 'waggonway, houses, gardens, pit and waste'. Site of explosion in 1822.

Easting

432170

Northing

553850

Grid Reference

NZ432170553850

Sources

<< HER 3097 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1862, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, Penshaw: Not just a monument - Historic Village Atlas;