Chilton Moor, Shaft

HER Number

3177

District

Outside

Site Name

Chilton Moor, Shaft

Place

Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Coal Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.

Easting

431370

Northing

549080

Grid Reference

NZ431370549080

Sources

<< HER 3177 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1861, 6 inch scale, Durham20