Heaton Banks Colliery, Site of three engines

HER Number:
1763

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Heaton Banks Colliery, Site of three engines

Place:
Heaton

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Machinery

Site Type: Specific:
Engine

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Three "engines" are shown on an 18th century "Plan of Heaton Estate". A 1733 drawing of the engine used to drain the Knab Pit shows that it was much more sophisticated than the early coffee pot type used at Tanfield. The engine house is a large, two stories, building housing an engine with 42 inch cylinders and a seven foot stroke which was capable of ten strokes a minute and drawing 11,550 gallons of water an hour.

Easting:
264

Northing:
656

Grid Reference:
NZ264656

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1763 >> Plan - ref. C188 of Heaton Estate, Northumberland Records Office- ZRI 50/9; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage