Old Engine Pit
Old Engine Pit
HER Number
1166
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Old Engine Pit
Place
Willington
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
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
An Old Engine Pit, presumably a Coal Mine, is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, but it is not clear whether it was working at that time (c.1858). This may have been the Engine Pit opened in 1775 "at Willington" by Messrs Bells and Brown.
Easting
431750
Northing
568440
Grid Reference
NZ431750568440
Sources
<< HER 1166 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89
C.E. Lee, 1949, Tyneside Tramroads of Northumberland 1947-9, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, p.203
C.E. Lee, 1949, Tyneside Tramroads of Northumberland 1947-9, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, p.203