Maria Pit

HER Number

3958

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Maria 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

Maria Pit. Owned by the Throckley Coal Company, who also owned Throckley Colliery (HER 4224). Closed in 1953.

Easting

415690

Northing

567280

Grid Reference

NZ415690567280

Sources

<< HER 3958 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk