Ravensworth, Coal Pit

HER Number

3750

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ravensworth, Coal Pit

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 Pit is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.

Easting

423800

Northing

558630

Grid Reference

NZ423800558630

Sources

<< HER 3750 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6