Coxlodge Colliery, Bower Pit

HER Number:
6924

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Coxlodge Colliery, Bower Pit

Place:
Coxlodge

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Opened before 1821, closed 1894. Coxlodge Colliery had three pits Bower Pit, Jubilee or North Pit and Regent or Engine Pit. Owners of the colliery in the 1850s were Bell and Brandling, then Joshua Bower, then Burradon and Coxlodge Colliers, and lastly NG Lambert & Co. An explosion on 6 March 1863 killed 19 people.

Easting:
237

Northing:
693

Grid Reference:
NZ237693

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; TH Hair, 1844, Views of the Colleries in The Counties of Northumberland and Durham