Deckham Hall Colliery

HER Number

6938

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Deckham Hall Colliery

Place

Deckham

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

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

Marked on Ordnance Survey second edition as "Old Colliery". Presumably this is Deckham Hall Colliery, which was owned by J. Hopper & Co.

Easting

426040

Northing

561900

Grid Reference

NZ426040561900

Sources

Second edition Ordnance Survey map 1890; Durham Mining Museum http://www.dmm.org.uk