Tyne and Wear HER(6904): High Spen, Victoria Garesfield Colliery, Ashtree Drift - Details
6904
Gateshead
High Spen, Victoria Garesfield Colliery, Ashtree Drift
High Spen
NZ15NW
Industrial
Mine
Drift Mine
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Part of Victoria Garesfield Colliery (HER 6903). Opened 1870 and closed on 13 July 1962. Shown on Ordnance survey third edition map of 1919.
144
593
NZ144593
Third edition Ordnance Survey map 1919; http://www.dmm.org.uk; N. Emery, 1998, Banners of the Durham Coalfield