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663


Gateshead


Ravensworth manor, coal mine


Ravensworth


NZ25NW


Industrial


Coal Mining Site


Colliery


Medieval


C14


Documentary Evidence


In 1356 Sir John Lumley granted to Sir Robert Umfravill "the site, demesne, park, meadows and pasture of the manor of Raueneshelme, which Eleanor, who was wife of Richard Fitz-Marmaduke, holds for life and of which Sir John has the reversion. To hold for one year and six weeks after the death of the said Eleanor, taking in that time as much coal there as can be worked by four men in one pit".


23204


59220


NZ2320459220



<< HER 663 >> H.E. Bell, 1939, Calendar of Deeds given to the Society by Lord Ravensworth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XVI, p. 56 no. 38

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