Benton Square, Moor Edge Colliery

HER Number:
2193

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Benton Square, Moor Edge Colliery

Place:
Benton Square

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
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).

Easting:
2989

Northing:
6937

Grid Reference:
NZ29896937

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2193 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SW