Cat Pit

HER Number

3924

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Cat Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Cat Pit (Coal) is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, but not shown on the 2nd edition plan, indicating that it was out of use by 1895.

Easting

415540

Northing

566300

Grid Reference

NZ415540566300

Sources

<< HER 3924 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 96; Extracts from minute book of George Johnson (1774-1775) Throckley Collieries (owned by Steve Grudgings)