Chopwell, Garesfield Colliery, Heavywell Pit

HER Number:
3376

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Chopwell, Garesfield Colliery, Heavywell Pit

Place:
Chopwell

Map Sheet:
NZ15NW

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:
A "Shaft (Coal)" is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan of the area. This is presumably Heavywell Pit of Garesfield Colliery (HER 3372). Opened by the Marquis of Bute, later Consett Iron Company Ltd, and from 1947 the National Coal Board.

Easting:
1301

Northing:
5885

Grid Reference:
NZ13015885

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3376 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 5; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Colliery Engineering, March 1933, "The Consett Colleries"