Black Callerton, Coal Pit

HER Number

3990

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Black Callerton, Coal Pit

Place

Black Callerton

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A Coal Pit is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, suggesting that it had probably gone out of use by 1855.

Easting

419120

Northing

569890

Grid Reference

NZ419120569890

Sources

<< HER 3990 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 88