Gateshead, Shipcote Colliery

HER Number:
3529

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Shipcote Colliery

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shipcote Colliery. Opened c1856, closed 1880s. Associated with North Pit. Owned by John Bowes and Co in the 1850s, then by Marley Hill Coal Company, then John Bowes and Partners Ltd.

Easting:
2596

Northing:
6280

Grid Reference:
NZ25966280

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3529 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; NPA, 2010, Lindisfarne Drive/Sunderland Road, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Assessment