Garden Pit

HER Number

3455

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Garden Pit

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

The Garden Pit is marked as an Air Shaft on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan and may have been part of Blaydon Main Colliery (Low Shibdon) (HER ref. 3457). It may have started out as a Pit but by 1856 was in use ventilating the main workings.

Easting

419150

Northing

562610

Grid Reference

NZ419150562610

Sources

<< HER 3455 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2