Walker, Delight Pit

HER Number:
4214

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walker, Delight Pit

Place:
Walker

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

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:
Delight Pit. Date of first working uncertain but a report book contains a document from 1824 containing queries by Matthias Dun regarding the best methods of working Charlotte, Delight and Engine Pits, Walker Colliery. The pit was in decline by 1912 the OS plan shows that the pithead and ancillary buildings were no longer present. Site now occupied by St Albans School.

Easting:
2891

Northing:
6519

Grid Reference:
NZ28916519

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4214 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98; Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2008, Sir Charles Parsons School, Westbourne Avenue, Walker - Archaeological Assessment