Preston Colliery

HER Number

2123

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Preston Colliery

Place

Billy Mill

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

Preston Colliery, at Billy Mill, is not on the 1st edition ordnance Survey plan, so was built after 1858.

Easting

434280

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ434280569000

Sources

<< HER 2123 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SE