Walker Colliery, Jane Pit

HER Number

4200

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Walker Colliery, Jane Pit

Place

Walker

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Jane Pit (Coal). Walker Colliery opened before 1765 and closed in 1920. Owners were Lambert & Co (1850s), N.G. Lambert & Co and then Walker Coal Company Ltd. Jane Pit opened in 1790.

Easting

429340

Northing

563980

Grid Reference

NZ429340563980

Sources

<< HER 4200 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Roy Thompson, 2004, Thunder Underground - Northumberland Mine Disasters 1815-65, p 100