High Spen, Victoria Garesfield Colliery, Speculation Drift

HER Number:
6937

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
High Spen, Victoria Garesfield Colliery, Speculation Drift

Place:
High Spen

Map Sheet:
NZ15NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Mine

Site Type: Specific:
Drift Mine

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Part of Victoria Garesfield Colliery (HER 6903). Opened 1870 and closed on 13 July 1962. Shown on Ordnance survey third edition map of 1919.

Easting:
143

Northing:
581

Grid Reference:
NZ143581

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
http://www.dmm.org.uk; N. Emery, 1998, Banners of the Durham Coalfield