Success Pit

HER Number

3966

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Success 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

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A Coal Pit, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1860. It was out of use on the 2nd edition OS mapping, 1895 survey. Shown on an eighteenth century map ZAN/M17/197/a/24.

Easting

416210

Northing

567580

Grid Reference

NZ416210567580

Sources

<< HER 3966 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87; Plan of the Lordship of Newburn, 1767, Northumberland Record Office (Woodhorn), Sant/Beq/9/1/1/24 and 25