Rush Pit

Rush Pit

HER Number

3870

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Rush Pit

Place

Low Eighton

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

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

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows the position of Rush Pit (Coal).

Easting

426200

Northing

557680

Grid Reference

NZ426200557680

Sources

<< HER 3870 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7