Hopewell Pit

Hopewell Pit

HER Number

2016

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Hopewell Pit

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

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

Hopewell Pit (Coal) is shown as out of use on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan.

Easting

434750

Northing

567980

Grid Reference

NZ434750567980

Sources

<< HER 2016 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89