Hazlerigg Colliery

HER Number

4240

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Hazlerigg Colliery

Place

Hazlerigg

Map Sheet

NZ27SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Hazlerigg Colliery. This was opened 1892 by the Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Company. It transferred in 1929 to the Hazlerigg and Burradon Coal Company Ltd, then to the National Coal Board in 1947. Closed 25th November 1964. There was a pumping shaft at NZ 227 717.

Easting

422780

Northing

571830

Grid Reference

NZ422780571830

Sources

<< HER 4240 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 88, NW; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; James T. Tuck, 1997, Collieries of Northumberland