Tyne and Wear HER(1057): Backworth Colliery, C Pit - Details
1057
N Tyneside
Backworth Colliery, C Pit
Backworth
NZ27SE
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
The 2nd edition Ordnance Survey Map shows an expanded colliery, with spoil heaps and an internal system of wagonways. It closed before 1900. Ajacent to the Colliery, on the western side of the railway was the Hotspur Brick Works, (HER ref. 2217).
2939
7341
NZ29397341
<< HER 1057 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 81
I. M. Ayris, Northumberland Mining Records Survey; http://www.dmm.org.uk; John Elliott & Derek Charlton, 1994, Backworth - An Illustrated History of the Mines and Railways