Ryton Woodside, Shaft

HER Number

3308

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ryton Woodside, Shaft

Place

Ryton Woodside

Map Sheet

NZ16SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Mine Shaft

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

414250

Northing

562990

Grid Reference

NZ414250562990

Sources

<< HER 3308 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 1