Percy Main, Reservoir

HER Number

2025

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Percy Main, Reservoir

Place

Percy Main

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad

Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific

Reservoir

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey Map evidence shows the location of a reservoir, south of Percy Main Colliery.

Easting

433770

Northing

566940

Grid Reference

NZ433770566940

Sources

<< HER 2025 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89