Lark Pit

HER Number

8485

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Lark Pit

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Coal Workings

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Lark Pit is shown on an eighteenth century map ZAN/M17/197/a/24. Gone by OS first edition.

Easting

415530

Northing

567100

Grid Reference

NZ415530567100

Sources

Northumberland Record Office ZAN/M17/197/a/24; Extracts from minute book of George Johnson (1774-1775) Throckley Collieries (owned by Steve Grudgings)