Heaton Banks Colliery, Bank Pit

HER Number

1768

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Heaton Banks Colliery, Bank Pit

Place

Heaton

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Bank Pit is shown on an 18th century Plan of Heaton Estate. Its precise location is unknown. Pit had been sealed and planted over with trees by 1815.

Easting

426510

Northing

566100

Grid Reference

NZ426510566100

Sources

<< HER 1768 >> Plan - ref. C188 of Heaton Estate, Northumberland Records Office- ZRI 50/9; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage