Preston Colliery

HER Number

2006

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Preston Colliery

Place

Preston

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows the location of Preston Colliery.

Easting

434720

Northing

568780

Grid Reference

NZ434720568780

Sources

<< HER 2006 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Roy Thompson, 2004, Thunder Underground - Northumberland Mine Disasters 1815-65, photo on p 21