Axwell Park, Morrisfield coal pits

HER Number:
13579

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Axwell Park, Morrisfield coal pits

Place:
Axwell Park

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C16

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
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.

Easting:
188

Northing:
623

Grid Reference:
NZ188623

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
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