Dinnington, quarry

HER Number

7730

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Dinnington, quarry

Place

Dinnington

Map Sheet

NZ27SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

An ‘old Quarry’ is shown on the east side of Gardeners Houses on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, but not on the 1st edition, suggesting that it had been in operation between c.1855 and c.1898.

Easting

420990

Northing

574340

Grid Reference

NZ420990574340

Sources

2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, surveyed c.1898.