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Delight Pit, Walker
Walker, Newcastle
54.980484,-1.549664
Opened:
Closed:
19th c
pre-1860s
Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
19 Mar 2025
Redeveloped
Condition:
Owners:
Lambert & Co. (1850s)
Description (or HER record listing)
Delight Pit. Date of first working uncertain but a report book contains a document from 1824 containing queries by Matthias Dun regarding the best methods of working Charlotte, Delight and Engine Pits, Walker Colliery. The pit was in decline by 1912 the OS plan shows that the pithead and ancillary buildings were no longer present. Site now occupied by St Albans School.
It stood on the early 19th century waggonway from Battle Hill, Walker to what is now Walkergate at Henry Pit. The waggonway was active from at least 1828 until at most 1847, meaning it may have been defunct long before the 1860s.
The site and shaft is still shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey adjacent to some legacy ancillary buildings and allotments, as well as the alignment of the waggonway. The pit had also gone defunct by the 1860s, as the Northumberland Name Books notes. From there, the name was applied to a small cottage in turn demolished in the 1900s.

Ordnance Survey, 1899

Entrance to Delight Pit looking south. The Waggonway will have entered through this point. July 2022.
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Site of Delight Pit in March 2025
Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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