Byker Colliery, pits

HER Number

17176

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Byker Colliery, pits

Place

Byker

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Pits shown on a Plan of Low Heaton c1740. The pits named are Thomas, Margaret and Engine with another (possibly Matthew) just to the north. Grid ref is approximate. Closed by 1815. Matthew used to try and rescue the trapped miners of the Heaton Main Colliery disaster May 2015.

Easting

427000

Northing

564800

Grid Reference

NZ427000564800

Sources

Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage