Benwell Colliery, West Pit

HER Number

4083

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Benwell Colliery, West Pit

Place

Benwell

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Benwell Colliery, West Pit (Coal). This is just shown as an Old Shaft on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey. Benwell Colliery opened in 1766. There were three other pits - Beaumont Pit (HER 4107 - opened in 1809), Charlotte Pit (HER 4081 - opened in April 1766) and Edward Pit (probably HER 4068 - opened in 1809). The Colliery was owned by W. Cochrane Carr Ltd and from the 1930s, the Elswick Coal Company Ltd. Steam engine and pit shown on Plan of Andrew Bowes Estate, 1811.

Easting

421490

Northing

563640

Grid Reference

NZ421490563640

Sources

<< HER 4083 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Plan of Andrew Bowes Estate,1811 (NRO Seymour Bell Collection)