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Curleheugh, old coal pits
Eglingham
55.483475, -1.827250
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Closed:
pre-1850s
pre-1850s
Entry Created:
30 May 2025
Last Updated:
30 May 2025
Reclaimed
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Description (or HER record listing)
Curleheugh was a small hamlet north of Eglingham on the hills beyond Tarry. The Northumberland Name Books (https://namebooks.org.uk/) state a shepherds house occupies the site nearby some reuins, indicating a hamlet once existed there.
By the 1850s there were remains of an old limekiln and around 5 coal pits - either bell pits or shallow shafts, which were likely household use alongside to burn lime for fertiliser etc. They were probably in use in the 18th or early 19th century, given they were ruinous by this stage.
There is no trace of the shepherds house, the pits or the kiln today.
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