Black Callerton, Coal Shaft

HER Number

3988

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Black Callerton, Coal Shaft

Place

Black Callerton

Map Sheet

NZ17SE

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

This Coal Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, suggesting that it had probably gone out of use by 1855.

Easting

418380

Northing

570660

Grid Reference

NZ418380570660

Sources

<< HER 3988 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 88