Victoria Garesfield Colliery, Speculation Drift

HER Number

6937

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Victoria Garesfield Colliery, Speculation 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

414300

Northing

558100

Grid Reference

NZ414300558100

Sources

http://www.dmm.org.uk; N. Emery, 1998, Banners of the Durham Coalfield