Tyne and Wear HER(15723): East Rainton, medieval mine - Details
15723
Sunderland
East Rainton, medieval mine
East Rainton
NZ34NW
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
Medieval
C16-C17
Documentary Evidence
Mention is made of a collier at Reynton in 1531 and of outcrops of coal and mining by the colliers Richard and Robert Wright in 1604.
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NZ3347
East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript)