Elswick Colliery

HER Number

4098

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Elswick Colliery

Place

Elswick

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

Elswick Colliery. Opened before 1828. It is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping of 1895, however a John Thomas Miller was still working at the colliery in December 1896. Owned by Elswick Colliery Company and then Elswick Coal Company Ltd. There were 3 other associated pits - North Elswick Pit (HER 4076), Mill Pit and Wortley/Engine Pit, which was sunk in 1805.

Easting

423040

Northing

564230

Grid Reference

NZ423040564230

Sources

<< HER 4098 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; pers comm Joan Bennett, 2019 (John Thomas Miller was her Great Uncle)