Bigges Main Colliery, High Row
Bigges Main Colliery, High Row
HER Number
7940
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Bigges Main Colliery, High Row
Place
Bigges Main
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Industrial House
Site Type: Specific
Workers Cottage
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Sixteen miner's terraced cottages shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1865. Each cottage had a single front room and most with a garret and lean-to at the rear. Two cottages had back rooms. Most of the houses in the Bigges Main village were in use until the 1930s.
Easting
428750
Northing
567060
Grid Reference
NZ428750567060
Sources
Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage