Usworth, Coal Pit

Tyne and Wear HER(3030): Usworth, Coal Pit - Details

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:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
3115

Northing:
5493

Grid Reference:
NZ31155493

Lats/Lons:

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