Blaydon, Drift

HER Number

3444

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Blaydon, Drift

Place

Blaydon

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Drift Mine is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was presumably out of use by 1856.

Easting

418780

Northing

563010

Grid Reference

NZ418780563010

Sources

<< HER 3444 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2