Prestwick, Landsale Colliery

HER Number

16538

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Prestwick, Landsale Colliery

Place

Woolsington

Map Sheet

NZ17SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Colliery marked on Fryer's map of Northumberland, 1820. Greenwood's plan, 1828 names it Landsale Colliery. An engine is also noted in this area on the 1828 plan.

Easting

184

Northing

713

Grid Reference

NZ184713

Sources

Fryer's Map of Northumberland, 1820; Greenwood's Map of Northumberland, 1828