Backworth, spoil heaps
Backworth, spoil heaps
HER Number
17743
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Backworth, spoil heaps
Place
Backworth
Map Sheet
NZ27SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Mining Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Spoil Heap
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Levelled Earthwork
Description
Backworth Colliery developed into a substantial colliery and brickwork complex with spoil heaps, reservoirs, workshops, chimneys, a Hoffmann Kiln, other buildings and wagonways by 1947. The site of this colliery was subsequently disturbed and then re-landscaped, very little physical trace of the colliery and brickworks survive.
Easting
429280
Northing
573420
Grid Reference
NZ429280573420
Sources
RAF/CPE/UK/2352 FS 3014 04-OCT-1947;
Next Perspectives APGB Imagery NZ2973 06-MAY-2016; Alison Deegan, 2018, South East Northumberland Air Photograph and Lidar Mapping Project; OS/70180 V 83 05-JUN-1970
Next Perspectives APGB Imagery NZ2973 06-MAY-2016; Alison Deegan, 2018, South East Northumberland Air Photograph and Lidar Mapping Project; OS/70180 V 83 05-JUN-1970