Duke Pit

HER Number

3930

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Duke Pit

Place

Walbottle

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

Walbottle Colliery, Duke Pit. Could be as early as 1740. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895. Walbottle Colliery (HER 4229) opened before 1828. Owners in the 1850s were J. Lamb, Potters and Joblings Trustees, then R.O. Lamb, then Terale & Kirton, later Kirton, Rowell & Dodd, Walbottle Coal and Firebrick Co and lastly Lemington Colliery Co ltd. Blucher Pit closed in 1867 but was reopened in 1900 by the Throckley Coal Company, the owners of pits at Heddon, Throckley and Newburn.

Easting

416850

Northing

566210

Grid Reference

NZ416850566210

Sources

<< HER 3930 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 96