Chopwell, Coal Shaft

HER Number

3400

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Chopwell, Coal Shaft

Place

Chopwell

Map Sheet

NZ15NW

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

410990

Northing

558050

Grid Reference

NZ410990558050

Sources

<< HER 3400 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 5