Lady Pit

HER Number

4065

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Lady Pit

Place

Gosforth

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

Lady Pit (Coal) is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, but is not shown on the 2nd edition plan, indicating that it was probably out of use by 1895.

Easting

421370

Northing

566340

Grid Reference

NZ421370566340

Sources

<< HER 4065 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97