Blaydon, Garden Pit

HER Number:
3455

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blaydon, Garden Pit

Place:
Blaydon

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

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:
The Garden Pit is marked as an Air Shaft on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan and may have been part of Blaydon Main Colliery (Low Shibdon) (HER ref. 3457). It may have started out as a Pit but by 1856 was in use ventilating the main workings.

Easting:
1915

Northing:
6261

Grid Reference:
NZ19156261

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3455 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2