NEHL - West Holywell Colliery was a short lived working on the Cramlington Waggonway/Blyth & Tyne between Backworth and Seghill. It was sunk in 1857 with operations commencing the same year, as per an advertisement for sinkers in the Newcastle Journal of 11/07/1857.

It was a small operation, with timber ground level buildings and a couple of sidings leading off the main railway. There were 2 other buildings - one likely being the colliery managers, as well as a small pond on the north end. Havelock Place, to the south west, was likely built to host the West Holywell pitmen alongside the C Pit.

The shaft stayed extant all the way through to the 1960s, though these days has been reclaimed and covered over.