N11830
Bedlington Colliery
Bedlington
55.140404, -1.570990
A Pit
Engine Pit
Opened:
Closed:
18th c
20th c
Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
30 Jan 2023
Redeveloped
Condition:
Owners:
Davison, Easton, Anderson, Stodart, Bates & Henderson (1850s), Bedlington Coal Co. (1860s - 1947), National Coal Board (1947 -)
Description (or HER record listing)
A colliery is shown on a map of 1787 and is marked as Bedlington Colliery on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1865.
NEHL - A Pit was connected to a waggonway which led east to the River Blyth long before the Blyth & Tyne was built. Part of the staiths are still extant on the banks north of the river. Though the Doctor Pit came to dominate the local skyline, the A Pit had existed from at least the 1720s. A newspaper excerpt from the Newcastle Courant of 1722 advises Bedlington Colliery was to let along with "free way-leaves and staith-rooms, and won within a mile of the staiths on the River Blyth".
The pit continued operations through the 19th century.
Ordnance Survey, 1898
Bedlington A Pit, date unknown. Source: Northern Mines and Collieries, Facebook
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Bedlington Colliery in 1924, complete with the institute on the left. Source: © Historic England. Aerofilms Collection Historic England Photograph: EPW010655 flown 14/06/1924
Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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