Victoria Garesfield Colliery, Ashtree Drift

HER Number

6904

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Victoria Garesfield Colliery, Ashtree Drift

Place

High Spen

Map Sheet

NZ15NW

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

Part of Victoria Garesfield Colliery (HER 6903). Opened 1870 and closed on 13 July 1962. Shown on Ordnance survey third edition map of 1919.

Easting

414400

Northing

559300

Grid Reference

NZ414400559300

Sources

Third edition Ordnance Survey map 1919; http://www.dmm.org.uk; N. Emery, 1998, Banners of the Durham Coalfield