Elswick, Coal Shaft

HER Number

4110

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Elswick, Coal Shaft

Place

Elswick

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 shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, but not on the 2nd edition, indicating that it was probably out of use by 1895.

Easting

422560

Northing

563220

Grid Reference

NZ422560563220

Sources

<< HER 4110 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97