Walker Colliery, East Pit

HER Number

4215

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Walker Colliery, East Pit

Place

Walker

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

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

East Pit (Coal). Shown on Oliver's Plan of 1840. Marked as an Old Shaft on the 2nd edition OS mapping. Walker Colliery opened before 1765 and closed in 1920. Owners were Lambert & Co (1850s), N.G. Lambert & Co and then Walker Coal Company Ltd.

Easting

429410

Northing

565320

Grid Reference

NZ429410565320

Sources

<< HER 4215 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Oliver, Plan of Walker Estate in the County of Northumberland, 1840, D/NCP/19/4