Benwell Colliery, Charley/Charlotte Pit

HER Number

4081

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Benwell Colliery, Charley/Charlotte Pit

Place

Benwell

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Charley Pit (Coal). This is named as the Charlotte Pit on the 2nd edition OS mapping. Opened in April 1766 as part of Benwell Colliery, owned by W. Cochrane Carr Ltd, and from the 1930s by Elswick Coal Company Ltd.

Easting

421770

Northing

564330

Grid Reference

NZ421770564330

Sources

<< HER 4081 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk