Throckley, Coal Pit

HER Number

3964

District

Outside

Site Name

Throckley, Coal Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

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

Easting

415130

Northing

567690

Grid Reference

NZ415130567690

Sources

<< HER 3964 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87