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3850
Beacon Lough Coal Pit
Beacon Lough, Gateshead
54.930980,-1.588009
Opened:
Closed:
Unknown
pre-1850s
Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
17 Apr 2024
Redeveloped
Condition:
Owners:
Description (or HER record listing)
This Coal Pit is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, suggesting that it was probably out of use by 1857.
NEHL - The shaft was still in situ by the late 1940s, as seen on aerial photography. It had laid dormant for at least a century, in a small wooded area north of Greenwell House which has since been demolished. It isn't known whether there are any remains today.

Ordnance Survey, 1850s
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