East Rainton, medieval mine

HER Number

15723

District

Sunderland

Site Name

East Rainton, medieval mine

Place

East Rainton

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Mention is made of a collier at Reynton in 1531 and of outcrops of coal and mining by the colliers Richard and Robert Wright in 1604.

Easting

433000

Northing

547000

Grid Reference

NZ433000547000

Sources

East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript)