Blakelaw Pit

HER Number

3997

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Blakelaw Pit

Place

Blakelaw

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Blakelaw Pit (Coal) is marked as an ‘Old Shaft’ at this location on the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition plan, indicating that it was out of use by c.1895.

Easting

421480

Northing

567070

Grid Reference

NZ421480567070

Sources

<< HER 3997 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 88