Usworth, Mine Shaft

HER Number

2609

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Usworth, Mine Shaft

Place

Usworth

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Mine Shaft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A Shaft in the north east corner of Usworth Place park is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, where it is marked as ‘Old’, so was presumably out of use by 1857.

Easting

431540

Northing

559000

Grid Reference

NZ431540559000

Sources

<< HER 2609 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7