Heworth Colliery brickworks

HER Number:
8546

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth Colliery brickworks

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Brick and Tilemaking Site

Site Type: Specific:
Brickworks

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
1874 A brickworks was set up here in 1874, consisting of a clay mill, a drying flat, and a kiln. That year the works made 764,300 bricks, mostly for use in building the colliery engine house and in lining the pit shaft and pit pond. Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 135 (Durham Record Office)

Easting:
283

Northing:
605

Grid Reference:
NZ283605

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
P.J. Davison, 1986, Brickworks of the North East, p 135