Malley's Hole Coal Pit

HER Number

3016

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Malley's Hole Coal Pit

Place

Harraton

Map Sheet

NZ25SE

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

Malley's Hole is marked as an ‘Old Coal Pit’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, indicating that it was probably out of use by 1858.

Easting

2848

Northing

5450

Grid Reference

NZ28485450

Sources

<< HER 3016 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13