Ryton, Coal Pit

HER Number

3407

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ryton, Coal Pit

Place

Ryton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

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

Easting

416360

Northing

564460

Grid Reference

NZ416360564460

Sources

<< HER 3407 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2