Upper Heworth Colliery

HER Number

3820

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Upper Heworth Colliery

Place

Felling

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

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

Old Upper Hedworth Colliery is named as such on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.

Easting

428180

Northing

560960

Grid Reference

NZ428180560960

Sources

<< HER 3820 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7