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11643
Coal Mine, High Spen
High Spen, Gateshead
54.934873,-1.796320
Opened:
Closed:
Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
6 Sept 2021
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
Description (or HER record listing)
Post medieval coal mining site, with tramway, drift (HER 6945 and 6947) mine shaft and ventilation shaft visible as earthworks and structures on air photographs of 1947. Levelled mostly by 1977.
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