Tommy Pit

HER Number

3968

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Tommy 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

Tommy Pit (Coal). It is out of use on the 2nd edition OS mapping, 1895 survey. Shown on an eighteenth century map ZAN/M17/197/a/24.

Easting

416370

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ416370568000

Sources

<< HER 3968 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87