Backworth Colliery, Prosperous Pit

HER Number

1115

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Backworth Colliery, Prosperous Pit

Place

Benton Square

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

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

Coal shaft, west of Benton Square. Marked "Old" on 1st edn OS mapping so probably dates to before 1858. Durham Mining Museum Website say that Prosperous Pit proper opened in 1906 and closed December 1960. There is a piece of winding gear still on the site [2004] - removed from its tower.

Easting

429540

Northing

569890

Grid Reference

NZ429540569890

Sources

<< HER 1115 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; http://www.dmm.org.uk; W.G. Elliott, Bygone Days of Longenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor, Killingworth, Palmersville and Benton Square, Book 2, p 83; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2011, Benton Square, Backworth, North Tyneside - archaeological evaluation; TWM, 2010, Stanley Miller site, Palmersville - Archaeological Assessment