Ravensworth, Coal Pit

HER Number

3754

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ravensworth, Coal Pit

Place

Ravensworth

Map Sheet

NZ25NW

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

This Coal Pit is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.

Easting

421700

Northing

557760

Grid Reference

NZ421700557760

Sources

<< HER 3754 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6