Washington, Lane Pit

HER Number

2611

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Washington, Lane Pit

Place

Washington

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Lane Pit is marked as an ‘Old Coal Pit’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was out of use by 1857. An adjacent building also shown may have been related to this site.

Easting

429010

Northing

557390

Grid Reference

NZ429010557390

Sources

<< HER 2611 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7