Bank Top Quarry

HER Number

4067

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Bank Top Quarry

Place

Benwell

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Bank Top Quarry is marked as ‘Disused’ on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan (surveyed c. 1895).

Easting

421030

Northing

565080

Grid Reference

NZ421030565080

Sources

<< HER 4067 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97