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Former site of a large colliery now reclaimed land part of the Tyne Riverside Country Park.

Isabella Colliery, named after the daughter of mine owner William Stephenson, opened in 1867. In its heyday it produced 120,000 tons of coal a year and at the turn of the century employed 944 men. Coke made from the coal in a set of beehive coke ovens close to the site NZ1565 : Remains of Throckley Isabella Colliery Coke Ovens was mainly used by Spencer's Steel Works in Newburn and the Solway Hematite Iron Company.

The former industrial site was reclaimed in the 1970s and 80s financed by a Derelict Land Grant creating areas of grass and woodland for public recreation and a small part returned to grazing.