Scotswood Colliery

HER Number

4295

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Scotswood Colliery

Place

Scotswood

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Scotswood Colliery is shown at this location on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, but is absent from the 1st edition plan, indicating that it was built after 1858.

Easting

1936

Northing

6435

Grid Reference

NZ19366435

Sources

<< HER 4295 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NW