Delight Pit

HER Number

4214

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Delight Pit

Place

Walker

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

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

Delight Pit. Date of first working uncertain but a report book contains a document from 1824 containing queries by Matthias Dun regarding the best methods of working Charlotte, Delight and Engine Pits, Walker Colliery. The pit was in decline by 1912 the OS plan shows that the pithead and ancillary buildings were no longer present. Site now occupied by St Albans School.

Easting

428910

Northing

565190

Grid Reference

NZ428910565190

Sources

<< HER 4214 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98; Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2008, Sir Charles Parsons School, Westbourne Avenue, Walker - Archaeological Assessment