Heworth, coal mine

HER Number:
724

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth, coal mine

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14-C15

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
There was a coalmine somewhere at Heworth at least as early as the 14th century; notably there are records of expenses in 1377- 8, viz. sharpening picks, binding buckets, the purchase of a cord and a barrel, the payment of colliers' wages and for drawing water there. The coalmine account rolls of 1433-4 record the payment of 20s for making a shaft in Heworth field for the winning of coal.

Easting:
28882

Northing:
61754

Grid Reference:
NZ2888261754

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 724 >> Canon Fowler, ed. 1900, Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, Surtees Society, 103, pp. 586, 711