Byker, Clay Pit

HER Number

4155

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Byker, Clay Pit

Place

Byker

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Clay Pit

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Clay Pit 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

426620

Northing

564190

Grid Reference

NZ426620564190

Sources

<< HER 4155 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97