Winlaton, Mary Pit

HER Number:
3566

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Winlaton, Mary Pit

Place:
Winlaton

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:
Mary Pit (Coal) appears on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan ans was probably reused as an air shaft for Blaydon Burn Colliery at a later date. Remains of buildings and an air shaft tower survive on the north side of West Lane, near a school. The site was recently in use as a scrapyard.

Easting:
1735

Northing:
6193

Grid Reference:
NZ17356193

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3566 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6 Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1978, Blaydon and Winlaton Plan I.M. Ayris & P. Jubb, 1991, Struddars Farm, Gateshead Design, Observations on Possible re-use and Conversion