Margy Pit

HER Number

8483

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Margy 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

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

Easting

415870

Northing

567570

Grid Reference

NZ415870567570

Sources

Plan of the Lordship of Newburn, 1767, Northumberland Record Office ZAN/M17/197/a/24 and Sant/Beq/9/1/1/24 and 25