Billet Pit

HER Number

4109

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Billet Pit

Place

Elswick

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The site of Billet Pit (Coal) is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, but was covered by the Elswick Works on the 2nd edition map.

Easting

2244

Northing

6321

Grid Reference

NZ22446321

Sources

<< HER 4109 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97