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New Penshaw Pit
Penshaw, Sunderland
54.878230,-1.500349
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Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
8 Sept 2021
Redeveloped
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Description (or HER record listing)
New Painshaw Pit, sunk in 1792 and closed 1833. Depicted but not named on Bell's coalfield map of 1843. Tithe plan labels this area as 'waggonway, houses, gardens, pit and waste'. Site of explosion in 1822.
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Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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