West Kenton Colliery

HER Number

7060

District

Newcastle

Site Name

West Kenton Colliery

Place

Kenton

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Possible site of West Kenton Colliery. There is a spoil heap shown here on Ordnance Survey first edition. The pit is shown with a wagonway on Lambert's map of 1807, but it is likely that West Kenton Colliery is of similar date to East Kenton, which was in operation in 1770. Shown on Oliver's map of 1851 as "Clark's Winnings".

Easting

421130

Northing

567130

Grid Reference

NZ421130567130

Sources

Lambert's map of 1807