Usworth, Coal Pit

HER Number

3030

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Usworth, Coal Pit

Place

Usworth

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

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

This Coal Pit is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1858.

Easting

431150

Northing

554930

Grid Reference

NZ431150554930

Sources

<< HER 3030 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13