Derwent Crook Colliery

HER Number

6939

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Derwent Crook Colliery

Place

Low Fell

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Opened before 1746. There were two other pits - George Pit (NZ 253 595) and Thomas Pit (NZ 252 599). Owned by Lord Ravensworth & Partners. In 1819 a boring was put down below Low Main Seam to the Beaumont and Lower Coal Seams. Derwent Crook Colliery remained at least partly in operation until 1935 when the Beaumont seam was abandoned.

Easting

425167

Northing

560028

Grid Reference

NZ425167560028

Sources

Durham Mining Museum http://www.dmm.org.uk