Tyne and Wear HER(2193): Moor Edge Colliery - Details
2193
N Tyneside
Moor Edge Colliery
Benton Square
NZ26NE
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Documentary Evidence
Moor Edge Colliery is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan so must have opened after 1858. It was served by Killingworth Wagonway, and may have been related to an adjacent Air Shaft (HER ref. 2194).
429890
569370
NZ429890569370
<< HER 2193 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SW