Coal Shaft

HER Number

3491

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Coal Shaft

Place

Gateshead

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

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

424790

Northing

562780

Grid Reference

NZ424790562780

Sources

<< HER 3491 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2