Town Moor, Level

HER Number

4088

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Town Moor, Level

Place

Spital Tongues

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

A Level (Coal) is marked at this location 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

423480

Northing

565780

Grid Reference

NZ423480565780

Sources

<< HER 4088 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97