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Byker Colliery
Walker
54.972924, -1.563089
Success Pit
Opened:
Closed:
Unknown
pre-1850s
Entry Created:
10 Jul 2024
Last Updated:
6 Feb 2025
Redeveloped
Condition:
Owners:
Matthew Ridley
Description (or HER record listing)
This is very likely the site of the Success Pit of Byker Colliery - a mid 18th century working owned by the Ridley family which featured two seperate Newcomen pumping engines. One featured a 42" cylinder and another 52" 28 years later. It was certainly working by 1750 as per information on the Early Engines database.
A coal shaft is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1858. By this time it was disused, and it was finally capped and covered over by the 1890s.
https://coalpitheath.org.uk/engines/details?q=245~byker
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