Chance Pit

HER Number

17169

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Chance 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

Chance Pit is shown on an 18th century Plan of Heaton Estate. Its precise location is unknown. Closed by 1815. Used to try and rescue the trapped miners of the Heaton Main Colliery disaster May 2015.

Easting

426700

Northing

565700

Grid Reference

NZ426700565700

Sources

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