Tynemouth coal mine

HER Number:
733

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth coal mine

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE NZ37SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Early records show that coal was worked in Tynemouth during the latter part of the thirteenth century, and that the monks were then already deriving an income from collieries there. After its dissolution in 1539, the site, lands etc. of Tynemouth Priory were leased for 21 years to Sir Thomas Hilton. His account of 1538-39 includes in the list of property "a Mine of Coal in Tynemouth, which at the time of the dissolution was in the Prior's own possession", and was worth $2 6s 8d. There is no clue as to its location.

Easting:
37050

Northing:
69472

Grid Reference:
NZ3705069472

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 733 >> W.S. Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth, I, 217-18 H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Tynemouth Township, Northumberland County History, VIII, 17, 261