Benwell Colliery, Beaumont Pit

HER Number

4107

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Benwell Colliery, Beaumont Pit

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

Beaumont Pit (Coal) is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, but not on the 2nd edition. Sunk in 1809. Owned by W. Cochrane Carr Ltd and then by Elswick Coal Company Ltd in the 1930s.

Easting

422650

Northing

563340

Grid Reference

NZ422650563340

Sources

<< HER 4107 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97; http://www.dmm.org.uk