Bigges Main Colliery, Low Row

HER Number:
7942

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Bigges Main Colliery, Low Row

Place:
Bigges Main

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Industrial House

Site Type: Specific:
Workers Cottage

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Miner's terraced cottages shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1865. Low Row was also known as Waggonmen's Row which is recorded to have had 24 houses with one front room and a garret. Most of the houses in the Bigges Main village were in use until the 1930s.

Easting:
2871

Northing:
6670

Grid Reference:
NZ28716670

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage