Hetton-le-Hole, Trial Shaft

HER Number

3207

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Hetton-le-Hole, Trial Shaft

Place

Hetton-le-Hole

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

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

This Trial Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.

Easting

434690

Northing

548350

Grid Reference

NZ434690548350

Sources

<< HER 3207 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1861, 6 inch scale, Durham20; Hetton-le-Hole Tithe Plan, 1839 (DRO EP/HH 30/1-2)