Moorsley, Shaft

HER Number

3225

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Moorsley, Shaft

Place

Moorsley

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 Coal Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, indicating that it was probably out of use by 1857.

Easting

433710

Northing

545940

Grid Reference

NZ433710545940

Sources

<< HER 3225 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1861, 6 inch scale, Durham20