Stella, Coal Shaft

HER Number

3412

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Stella, Coal Shaft

Place

Stella

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

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 1856.

Easting

417220

Northing

563910

Grid Reference

NZ417220563910

Sources

<< HER 3412 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2