Penshaw Quarry

HER Number

3103

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Penshaw Quarry

Place

Penshaw

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

First shown on the 1775 Tempest Plan of Panshaw. Still operational in 1862. First edition locates a smithy within the quarry. The quarry was served by Penshaw Quarry Railway. Quarry disused by 1896 though the railway tracks were still in place.

Easting

432730

Northing

553060

Grid Reference

NZ432730553060

Sources

<< HER 3103 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, Penshaw: Not just a monument - Historic Village Atlas; Tempest Estate Map, 1775 (DRO NCB 1/X 227); 19th century quarry plans, TWAS DS.JWL/46/1 and 6