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Houghall Colliery
Durham
54.759316, -1.564314
Opened:
Closed:
1840
1880s
Entry Created:
17 Oct 2022
Last Updated:
17 Oct 2022
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
Elvet Coal Co. (1840s), Joseph H. Love & Partners (1860s)
Description (or HER record listing)
NEHL - A colliery was situated at the Houghall estate for a number of decades in the 19th century. Boring and testing operations started in the 1840s and the Elvet Coal Company commenced formal mining soon after. Coal from Houghall was shipped from 1842. The pit closed around the 1880s and is shown as disused on the 1890s maps.
The colliery was connected to the North Eastern Railway via a single track waggonway from Whitwell (some of this railway is still visible on satellite imagery).
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Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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