Rowlands Gill, Coal Pit

HER Number

3578

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Rowlands Gill, Coal Pit

Place

Rowlands Gill

Map Sheet

NZ15NE

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

This Coal Pit is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was presumably out of use by 1857.

Easting

416920

Northing

559640

Grid Reference

NZ416920559640

Sources

<< HER 3578 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6