This is the site of a colliery with associated workers housing. It operated from 1869 for a century and was then closed and demolished in 1969. At one time an aerial ropeway ran from the colliery to a nearby spoilheap (1-5).

NEHL - Wheatley Hill Colliery was a sizeable working, with a substantial pit village over a dozen rows long by the 1890s. It joined the Sunderland & Hartlepool Railway via a small branch named the Green Hills Railway for onward shipment at Hartlepool. The pit village featured a hotel & public house named the Colliery Hotel, a chapel, Temperance Hall as well as school and hotel over at Wheatley Hill Farm. Another Mission Church was located here also.