High Spen, coal workings

HER Number:
11637

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
High Spen, coal workings

Place:
High Spen

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Coal Workings

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
Post medieval area of coal working visible as earthworks on air photographs taken in 1946. Destroyed by quarrying by 1959.

Easting:
1357

Northing:
6128

Grid Reference:
NZ13576128

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1442998; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 3319 27-FEB-1946