Engine Pit

HER Number

3011

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Engine Pit

Place

Harraton

Map Sheet

NZ25SE

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

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows Engine Pit (Coal) at this location.

Easting

429470

Northing

554790

Grid Reference

NZ429470554790

Sources

Tithe map of Harraton in the parish of Chester-le-Street, 1847; William Oliver, 1851, Map of the coalfield of Northumberland and Durham; 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13