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13579


Gateshead


Axwell Park, Morrisfield coal pits


Axwell Park


NZ16SE


Industrial


Coal Mining Site


Colliery


Medieval


C16


Documentary Evidence


In the last two decades of the 16th century the Whickham Grand Lease group had pits in Axwell Morrisfield. This was free draining. A Grand Lease watercourse running to Swalwell Bank may date from this time. The pits continued in production until the 1650s. They were not exhausted until 1712.


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623


NZ188623



Eric Clavering and Alan Rounding, 1995, Early Tyneside Industrialism: The lower Derwent and Blaydon Burn Valleys 1550-1700, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol XXIII, pages 249-268

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