Nymph Pit

HER Number

3959

District

Outside

Site Name

Nymph 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

Nymph Pit (Coal) 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

415290

Northing

567690

Grid Reference

NZ415290567690

Sources

<< HER 3959 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87; Extracts from minute book of George Johnson (1774-1775) Throckley Collieries (owned by Steve Grudgings)