Tyne and Wear HER(11557): Walbottle, coal pits - Details
11557
Newcastle
Walbottle, coal pits
Walbottle
NZ16NE
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Coal Workings
POST MEDIEVAL
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Documentary Evidence
A plan of 1620 shows three coal pits within an arable field called 'midle shelf under the wall' [a reference to Hadrian's Wall]. To the north of Walbottle village, centred on NZ 1756 6782 is 'Newburne, Walbottle and Butterlaw Comon' which is annotated 'here did the coales burne in the Earth many years together'. A field called 'Barston Pittes' (centred on NZ 1812 6645) also suggests coal mining activity.
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A plan of the manor of Newburn, 1620, Alnwick Castle Archives Class O, Div. xvii, No. 1