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Chester South Moor Colliery
Chester le Street
54.837803, -1.583126
Chester Moor Colliery
Fan Pit
Opened:
Closed:
1889
1967
Entry Created:
9 Jun 2022
Last Updated:
10 Jun 2022
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
Sowerby, Phillips & Co. (1860s), Messrs. Thiedemann & Wallis (1880s), Priestman Collieries Ltd. (1880s), National Coal Board (1947)
Description (or HER record listing)
"Chester Moor is another colliery village, pleasantly situated on the Durham road, about two miles south of Chester-le-Street, and four and a half north of Durham. Here is the Chester Moor colliery, worked by Messrs. Thiedemann & Wallis, and giving employment to over 230 men and boys. The Hutton seam, 4 feet thick, is being wrought at a depth of 40 fathoms, giving an average daily output of about 700 tons."
Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham (retrieved from Durham Mining Museum)
Ordnance Survey, 1890s
Chester Moor Colliery, undated. Unknown Source
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Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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