Heaton Park, Fortune Pit

HER Number

1767

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Heaton Park, Fortune Pit

Place

Heaton

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

Fortune Pit is shown on an 18th century Plan of Heaton Estate. Its precise location is unknown.

Easting

426550

Northing

566010

Grid Reference

NZ426550566010

Sources

<< HER 1767 >> Plan - ref. C188 of Heaton Estate, Northumberland Records Office- ZRI 50/9; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage