Backworth Colliery, C Pit

HER Number:
1057

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Backworth Colliery, C Pit

Place:
Backworth

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The 2nd edition Ordnance Survey Map shows an expanded colliery, with spoil heaps and an internal system of wagonways. It closed before 1900. Ajacent to the Colliery, on the western side of the railway was the Hotspur Brick Works, (HER ref. 2217).

Easting:
2939

Northing:
7341

Grid Reference:
NZ29397341

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1057 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 81 I. M. Ayris, Northumberland Mining Records Survey; http://www.dmm.org.uk; John Elliott & Derek Charlton, 1994, Backworth - An Illustrated History of the Mines and Railways