Tyne and Wear HER(11655): High Spen, colliery - Details
11655
Gateshead
High Spen, colliery
High Spen
NZ16SW
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
Modern
C20
Levelled Earthwork
20th century colliery with associated waggonway (HER 11639), buildings and spoil heaps visible as earthworks on air photographs of 1947. Mostly levelled by 1977. Post medieval ridge and furrow (HER 11622) still surrounds the spoil heaps.
1387
6002
NZ13876002
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1442688; Aerial Photograph RAF CPE/UK/2352 3218 04-OCT-1947