Chance Pit
Chance Pit
HER Number
3947
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Chance Pit
Place
Throckley
Map Sheet
NZ16NW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Coal Mining Site
Site Type: Specific
Coal Workings
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
A Coal Pit is shown at this location on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, but is not shown on the 2nd edition plan, indicating that it was out of use by c.1895.
Easting
414950
Northing
566980
Grid Reference
NZ414950566980
Sources
<< HER 3947 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87; A Plan of Throckley, 1769, NRO 536/2; Thompson, 1767, A plan of the Lordship of Newburn belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, NRO Sant/Beq/9/1/1/24, Plan of the Throckley Estate in the County of Northumberland - freehold lands… formerly belonged to John Rogers Esq. now to Edward Montague Esq., 1736, NRO Sant/Beq/9/1/1/35; Throckley Estate and the workings in the Engine Seam of coal situated in the parish of Newburn belonging to Greenwich Hospital, NRO Sant/Beq/9/1/1/37