Blaydon Main Colliery
Blaydon Main Colliery
HER Number
3439
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Blaydon Main Colliery
Place
Blaydon
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
Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows that Blaydon Main Colliery was served by the Blaydon Main Wagonway (HER ref. 3442). This is possibly the Mary Pit, known from documentary evidence which opened after 1853 and closed before 1895.
Easting
418140
Northing
563040
Grid Reference
NZ418140563040
Sources
<< HER 3439 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2
Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 1, p 180-1
Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 1, p 180-1