Spring Pit

Spring Pit

HER Number

3877

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Spring Pit

Place

Eighton Banks

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 Spring Pit (Coal).

Easting

427560

Northing

558320

Grid Reference

NZ427560558320

Sources

<< HER 3877 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7