Bigges Main Colliery C Pit
Bigges Main Colliery C Pit
HER Number
1127
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Bigges Main Colliery C Pit
Place
Wallsend
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Coal Mining Site
Site Type: Specific
Colliery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Bigges Main Colliery, C Pit, was served by Bigges Main Wagonway (HER ref. 1128). Around 1782 three pits were sunk around the site and the village of Bigges Main developed, taking its name from that of the pit. "A" Pit was situated at NZ 288 670, "B" Pit at NZ 286 668 and "C" Pit further north at NZ 285 677 (HER ref. 1127). Due to flooding the Bigges Main pits ceased working in 1857. The "C" pit site was partly filled in with refuse and then bulldozed over into a hillock and seeded.
Easting
428470
Northing
567740
Grid Reference
NZ428470567740
Sources
<< HER 1127 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89
L.G. Charlton, 1972, The Bigges Main and the Kenton and Coxlodge Wagonways
L.G. Charlton, 1972, The Bigges Main and the Kenton and Coxlodge Wagonways