Backworth Colliery B Pit

HER Number:
1104

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Backworth Colliery B Pit

Place:
Backworth

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

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 colliery site includes a brickfield at its southern end, shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map. The 2nd edition Ordnance Survey Map shows an expansion of spoil heaps, but the colliery is marked "Disused". This pit was known as the B Pit, it opened in 1818 and was closed before 1900.

Easting:
3004

Northing:
7249

Grid Reference:
NZ30047249

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1104 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89 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