Tyne and Wear HER(3374): Rowlands Gill, Garesfield Colliery, Number 4 Pit - Details
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"