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Bogle Hole, drift mine
Iveston
54.848655, -1.800947
Opened:
Closed:
post-1850s
pre-1890s
Entry Created:
5 Sept 2025
Last Updated:
5 Sept 2025
Reclaimed
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Description (or HER record listing)
Several old drifts are illustrated as disused on the 1890s Ordnance Survey maps around the Bogle Hole Engine - an old pumping engine bringing water from underground to prevent flooding of the coal workings to the reservoir adjacent as seen on the photo below.
There is sadly very little known about these workings apart from the fact they were disused by the late 19th century. There was no rail connection, so were perhaps fairly informal landsale workings by some speculator from nearby Iveston.

Ordnance Survey, 1890s
The Bogle Hole Engine. A waste head can be seen immediately adjacent, and another shaft was just in front of the treeline on the left. Unknown original source, dating from 1900s.
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Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
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