Catherine Pit

HER Number

3296

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Catherine Pit

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

413380

Northing

563050

Grid Reference

NZ413380563050

Sources

<< HER 3296 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 1