Crawcrook, Coal Shaft

HER Number

3295

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Crawcrook, Coal Shaft

Place

Crawcrook

Map Sheet

NZ16SW

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, so was probably out of use by 1856.

Easting

413250

Northing

563200

Grid Reference

NZ413250563200

Sources

<< HER 3295 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 1