Rowlands Gill, Garesfield Colliery, Number 4 Pit

HER Number:
3374

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Rowlands Gill, Garesfield Colliery, Number 4 Pit

Place:
Rowlands Gill

Map Sheet:
NZ15NE

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:
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.

Easting:
1514

Northing:
5988

Grid Reference:
NZ15145988

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< 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"