Black Callerton, Coal Pit

HER Number

3975

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Black Callerton, Coal Pit

Place

Black Callerton

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

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.Survey plan, so was out of use by 1860.

Easting

416550

Northing

569030

Grid Reference

NZ416550569030

Sources

<< HER 3975 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87