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Cornsay Colliery
Cornsay
54.784018, -1.767389
Chapelflat Drift
Opened:
Closed:
c1900s
1953
Entry Created:
14 Apr 2023
Last Updated:
14 Apr 2023
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
Ferens & Love
Description (or HER record listing)
NEHL - The chapelflat drift was part of the wider Cornsay Colliery complex, and is its westernmost working. It opened after the turn of the 20th century, and was connected by tramway to the edge of the village where coal and the wagon stock were presumably serviced. The working itself was modest, featuring a brick tunnel connecting to a surface building and chimney.
Ordnance Survey, 1921
Postcard of the Chapelflat drift post 1920s.
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