North Fenham Pit

HER Number

4310

District

Newcastle

Site Name

North Fenham Pit

Place

Cowgate

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

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

Fenham North Pit is not shown on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was sunk after 1858. Owned by Bambridge and White in the 1880s.

Easting

422400

Northing

566260

Grid Reference

NZ422400566260

Sources

<< HER 4310 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NW; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk