Stella, Coal Pit

HER Number

3415

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Stella, Coal Pit

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 Pit is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1856.

Easting

416350

Northing

563490

Grid Reference

NZ416350563490

Sources

<< HER 3415 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2