Spital Tongues, Shaft

HER Number

4092

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Spital Tongues, Shaft

Place

Spital Tongues

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Mine Shaft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Coal Shaft and its associated Gingang are shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, but not on the 2nd edition, indicating that they were probably out of use by 1895.

Easting

423870

Northing

565600

Grid Reference

NZ423870565600

Sources

<< HER 4092 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97