Burdon Moor, Coal Shaft

HER Number

3747

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Burdon Moor, Coal Shaft

Place

Ravensworth

Map Sheet

NZ25NW

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 1857.

Easting

421510

Northing

558740

Grid Reference

NZ421510558740

Sources

<< HER 3747 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6