Blaydon Burn, Blaydon Main Colliery, Milner Pit

HER Number:
1661

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blaydon Burn, Blaydon Main Colliery, Milner Pit

Place:
Blaydon Burn

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

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 Milner Pit is not marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey plan (c.1855), but does appear on the second edition in 1896. It exploited the Hodge or Camel Seam. It had disappeared by 1919.

Easting:
1780

Northing:
6342

Grid Reference:
NZ17806342

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
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