Walbottle Colliery

HER Number

4229

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Walbottle Colliery

Place

Newburn

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

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

Walbottle Colliery. Opened before 1828. The earliest pit may have been Duke Pit (HER 3930), which could be as early as 1740. The other pits were Blucher Pit (HER 3939), Coronation Pit (HER 3984), George Pit, Percy Pit, Union Pit (NZ 177 674) and Wellington Pit (NZ 177 674). Owners in the 1850s were J. Lamb, Potters and Joblings Trustees, then R.O. Lamb, then Terale & Kirton, later Kirton, Rowell & Dodd, Walbottle Coal and Firebrick Co and lastly Lemington Colliery Co ltd.

Easting

417540

Northing

565050

Grid Reference

NZ417540565050

Sources

<< HER 4229 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 96, NE; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk