Nanny Pit

HER Number

3388

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Nanny Pit

Place

Chopwell

Map Sheet

NZ15NW

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 Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1856.

Easting

412270

Northing

559380

Grid Reference

NZ412270559380

Sources

<< HER 3388 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 5; Durham Mining Museum, www.dmm.org.uk