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3374


Gateshead


Rowlands Gill, Garesfield Colliery, Number 4 Pit


Rowlands Gill


NZ15NE


Industrial


Coal Mining Site


Colliery


Early Modern


C19


Documentary Evidence


Garesfield Colliery, Number 4 Pit was probably working by 1801 and formed the western terminus of the Garesfield Wagonway until 1850. Opened by the Marquis of Bute, later Consett Iron Company Ltd, and from 1947 the National Coal Board.


1514


5988


NZ15145988



<< HER 3374 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 5 Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 1, p 181-3; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Colliery Engineering, March 1933, "The Consett Colleries"

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