Throckley, Mine Shaft

HER Number

3963

District

Outside

Site Name

Throckley, Mine Shaft

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Mine Shaft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This mine shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, suggesting that it had probably gone out of use by 1855.

Easting

415170

Northing

567940

Grid Reference

NZ415170567940

Sources

<< HER 3963 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87