Percy Main Colliery (Howdon Panns)

HER Number

2023

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Percy Main Colliery (Howdon Panns)

Place

Percy Main

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

Percy Main Colliery, possibly associated with the nearby Colliery Offices (HER 2022) and Wagonway (HER 2024). There were two associated pits - Flatworth Pit (HER 1174) and Percy Pit. Thomas Hair drew a picture of the colliery in 1844.

Easting

433750

Northing

567070

Grid Reference

NZ433750567070

Sources

<< HER 2023 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; T. Hair, 1844, Views of the collieries in the counties of Northumberland and Durham