Rowland's Gill, Lilley Drift

HER Number

6912

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Rowland's Gill, Lilley Drift

Place

Rowland's Gill

Map Sheet

NZ15NE

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

Shown on Ordnance Survey Survey second edition. Opened in 1877 by Joseph Cowen & Co. Later owned by Priestman Collieries Ltd until 1947 when the National Coal Board took over. Closed on 6 January 1957.

Easting

416730

Northing

559310

Grid Reference

NZ416730559310

Sources

Ordnance survey second edition map of 1890; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Tyne and Wear Archives DP.PM/2/3 Lilley Drift Colliery 1951; NCP33/box25/16; DP.PM/2/10 Priestman Collieries Ltd; DT.PM/1/2 Priestman Valuation Papers