Throckley, Success Pit

HER Number:
3966

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Throckley, Success Pit

Place:
Throckley

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Coal Workings

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A Coal Pit, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1860. It was out of use on the 2nd edition OS mapping, 1895 survey. Shown on an eighteenth century map ZAN/M17/197/a/24.

Easting:
1621

Northing:
6758

Grid Reference:
NZ16216758

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3966 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 87; Plan of the Lordship of Newburn, 1767, Northumberland Record Office (Woodhorn), Sant/Beq/9/1/1/24 and 25