Blaydon Main Colliery, Milner Pit

HER Number

1661

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Blaydon Main Colliery, Milner Pit

Place

Blaydon Burn

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

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

The Milner Pit is not marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey plan (c.1855), but does appear on the second edition in 1896. It exploited the Hodge or Camel Seam. It had disappeared by 1919.

Easting

417800

Northing

563420

Grid Reference

NZ417800563420

Sources

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