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Penshaw Colliery
Penshaw, Sunderland
54.866879,-1.498841
E Pit
Opened:
Closed:
Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
3 Sept 2021
Redeveloped
Condition:
Owners:
Lady F. A. Vane Londonderry (1850s), George Elliot & Co. (1860s), Sir George Elliot (1880s)
Description (or HER record listing)
Depicted on the 1815 Vane Tempest estate map and on Bell's Coalfield map (1843). It was connected by a waggonway branch line, partly shared with Mill Pit running NW to link with the Tempest/Londonderry line. Probably redundant by 1862.
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