Mossheap Quarries (North)

HER Number

3853

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Mossheap Quarries (North)

Place

Wrekenton

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This is one of two quarries named Mossheap on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan.

Easting

427030

Northing

559600

Grid Reference

NZ427030559600

Sources

<< HER 3853 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7