Townley Main Colliery (Emma Colliery)

HER Number:
3314

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Townley Main Colliery (Emma Colliery)

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

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:
Townley Main Colliery was served by the Townley Main Wagonway, (SMR 3317), which linked to it. The 1st edition OS mapping shows the Emma Pit, a gasometer and smithy in the complex. Opened 1845 and closed April 1968. Owned by the Stella Coal Co in the 1850s, and from 1947 the National Coal Board. Whellan reported that in 1894 the colliery produced 550 tons of coal per day.

Easting:
414380

Northing:
563900

Grid Reference:
NZ414380563900

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3314 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 1; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk