b091a, Boyne Colliery

b091a

Boyne Colliery

Langley Park, Durham

54.760533, -1.615310

Opened:

Unknown

Closed:

19th c

Reclaimed

Condition:

http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/b091.htm

Last Updated:

9 Jun 2022

Owners:

North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd. (1880s)

HER Info (unless otherwise noted)

"The North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., are also working the royalties in this township [Brandon and Byshottles], at their Littleburn Colliery, where three shafts are engaged, two for drawing coals, and one for pumping and upcast. At the Boyne pits thre are two shafts used for ventilating purposes."

- Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham (retrieved from Durham Mining Museum)

'Sketches of The Coal Mines in Northumberland and Durham' T.H.Hair, published in 1844

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