Queen Pit

Queen Pit

HER Number

8484

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Queen 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

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

Easting

415880

Northing

567420

Grid Reference

NZ415880567420

Sources

Northumberland Record Office ZAN/M17/197/a/24