Tyne and Wear HER(2308): West Boldon, Quarry - Details
2308
S Tyneside
West Boldon, Quarry
West Boldon
NZ36SE
Industrial
Stone Extraction Site
Limestone Quarry
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
This quarry is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was presumably out of use before 1857. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey planalso shows a track to limekilns (HER ref. 2309), suggesting that this was a limestone quarry, supplying those kilns. The quarry seems to have been reworked between 1855 and 1895 as the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, where it is again marked as ‘Old’, shows that it had expanded during that period.
3534
6063
NZ35346063
<< HER 2308 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7