Shipcote Colliery

HER Number

3529

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Shipcote Colliery

Place

Gateshead

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

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

Shipcote Colliery. Opened c1856, closed 1880s. Associated with North Pit. Owned by John Bowes and Co in the 1850s, then by Marley Hill Coal Company, then John Bowes and Partners Ltd.

Easting

425960

Northing

562800

Grid Reference

NZ425960562800

Sources

<< HER 3529 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; NPA, 2010, Lindisfarne Drive/Sunderland Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Assessment