First and Second Engine Pits
First and Second Engine Pits
HER Number
5105
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
First and Second Engine Pits
Place
Longbenton
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Coal Mining Site
Site Type: Specific
Colliery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Second Pit is shown on a plan of the Earl of Carlisle's Estate 1749. A further plan of the same year shows First and Second Engine Pits. A wagonway linked Dyke Pit (HER 5104) to these pits and ran south to staiths at Walker. Last shown on a plan of 1824 of the royalties and extent of manorial rights to coal under Gosforth. It may have been disused at this time. The site was built over with housing in the 1950s-1960s.
Easting
425760
Northing
568080
Grid Reference
NZ425760568080
Sources
<< HER 5105 >> Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2001, The Meadow Pit, Longbenton, Report for North Tyneside Council
J. Watson, 1749, Plans, Northumberland Records Office, 3410 WAT 20a/f9 and f19
1752, Colliery Viewer's report, Northumberland Records Office, John/3/63
J. Whatman, Plan - ref. C188, Northumberland Records Office, ZAN M17/197/a/62
1824, Plan of the Royalties and extent of manorial rights to coal under gosforth, Northumberland Records Office, NCLLSS SB 11/4
19th century, Plan of Longbenton North Farm, Northumberland Records Office, NCLLSS SB 2/16
J. Watson, 1749, Plans, Northumberland Records Office, 3410 WAT 20a/f9 and f19
1752, Colliery Viewer's report, Northumberland Records Office, John/3/63
J. Whatman, Plan - ref. C188, Northumberland Records Office, ZAN M17/197/a/62
1824, Plan of the Royalties and extent of manorial rights to coal under gosforth, Northumberland Records Office, NCLLSS SB 11/4
19th century, Plan of Longbenton North Farm, Northumberland Records Office, NCLLSS SB 2/16