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Tyne and Wear HER(2602): Usworth, Usworth Common, Quarries - Details

HER Number:
2602

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Usworth, Usworth Common, Quarries

Place:
Usworth

Map Sheet:
NZ25NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Stone Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific:
Quarry

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
These two Quarries are marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so were out of use by 1857.

Easting:
2882

Northing:
5827

Grid Reference:
NZ28825827

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2602 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7