Backworth, spoil heaps

HER Number:
17743

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Backworth, spoil heaps

Place:
Backworth

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Mining Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Spoil Heap

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Levelled Earthwork

Description:
Backworth Colliery developed into a substantial colliery and brickwork complex with spoil heaps, reservoirs, workshops, chimneys, a Hoffmann Kiln, other buildings and wagonways by 1947. The site of this colliery was subsequently disturbed and then re-landscaped, very little physical trace of the colliery and brickworks survive.

Easting:
2928

Northing:
7342

Grid Reference:
NZ29287342

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
RAF/CPE/UK/2352 FS 3014 04-OCT-1947; Next Perspectives APGB Imagery NZ2973 06-MAY-2016; Alison Deegan, 2018, South East Northumberland Air Photograph and Lidar Mapping Project; OS/70180 V 83 05-JUN-1970