Walker, Extractive Pits ?

Walker, Extractive Pits ?

HER Number

4284

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Walker, Extractive Pits ?

Place

Walker

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Extractive Pit

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Possible extractive pits (or reservoirs) are shown at this location on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, but are absent from the 1st edition plan, indicating that they were in use after 1858.

Easting

429000

Northing

566150

Grid Reference

NZ429000566150

Sources

<< HER 4284 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98, NW