Anna Bella Pit

HER Number

3008

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Anna Bella Pit

Place

Harraton

Map Sheet

NZ25SE

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

Anna Bella Pit (Coal). This was served by a wagonway, (HER 3009). Shown on the tithe map of 1847 and Oliver 1851. The pit was named after Anne Isabella Milbanke (1792-1860), daughter of Judith Noel (sister of Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth of Kirkby Mallory Hall, Leicestershire) and Ralph Milbanke of Halnaby. In 1815 Annabella married George Gordon Byron, later the 6th Lord Byron. She later became Baroness Wentworth.

Easting

428770

Northing

554960

Grid Reference

NZ428770554960

Sources

<< HER 3008 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; Tithe map of Harraton in the parish of Chester-le-Street, 1847; William Oliver, 1851, Map of the coalfield of Northumberland and Durham; Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd, 2008, An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment: The Former Goodyear Dunlop Tyre Factory, Wear Industrial Estate, Washington, Tyne and Wear