N20798
Old Hartley Colliery, Seaton Valley
Old Hartley, Seaton Valley
55.075625, -1.488411
Park Pit
Opened:
Closed:
Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
5 Sept 2021
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
Delaval Family
Description (or HER record listing)
This is the site of the Park Pit. Like many coal-mining sites in this area it was owned and operated by the Delaval family. It was sunk from 1789 to 1790 and worked from 1790 to 1796. The first Ordnance Survey map-makers in the 1860s did not note the site as a coal shaft or bell pit - though they appear to have recognised it as a spoil heap. There was no wagonway built here to transport the coal.
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Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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