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  Keepershield Quarry  Index  Keepershield Quarry  

Keepershield Quarry

OS Grid Ref: NY 89500 72700

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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In the following table the value given for the distance (miles/kilometres) from Keepershield Quarry are "as the crow flies" and are provided as an indication only.

Colliery Location Distance Opened   Closed
Acomb Colliery nr. Hexham 4.6m/7.5km  1952
Barrasford Quarry Barrasford 1.5m/2.4km  
Birkey Burn Deposit Acomb, Tyne Valley 4.8m/7.7km  
Birtley Colliery Wark-on-Tyne 3.1m/5.0km  
Black Pasture Quarry nr. Chollerford 2.8m/4.5km  
Brunton Quarry nr. Chollerford 2.6m/4.3km  
Camp Hill Quarry Gunnerton 2.6m/4.2km  
Carr Edge Mine Newbrough 2.0m/3.3km  
Carrstones Quarry  4.8m/7.7km  
Chipchase Colliery Chipchase 2.2m/3.6km  
Cocklaw Quarry 1 Hexham 3.0m/4.8km  
Cocklaw Quarry 2 nr. Chollerton 2.6m/4.2km  
Cowden Colliery Wark 4.0m/6.5km  
Crook Burn Lead Deposits  2.1m/3.5km  
Ellen Shaft Fourstones 3.7m/6.0km 1690 Apr 1969
Fallowfield (Lead Ore) Wall 3.5m/5.6km  
Fallowfield Colliery Wall 3.6m/5.9km  
First Pit Fourstones, nr. Hexham 3.1m/5.0km 1805 1927
Fourstones Colliery Fourstones, nr. Hexham 3.1m/5.0km 1805 1927
Fourstones Quarry Hexham 2.5m/4.0km 1781 1959
Frederick Shaft Fourstones 3.7m/6.0km 1690 Apr 1969
Gatestones Colliery Simonburn 3.3m/5.4km  
Glendue Quarry Hexham 4.1m/6.6km  
Goatstones Colliery Simonburn 3.3m/5.4km  16 May 1932
Gordon Shaft Fourstones 3.7m/6.0km 1690 Apr 1969
Greyside Fourstones 3.1m/5.1km 1851 1898
Grindon Hill Mine (Lead Ore) Haydon Bridge 4.9m/7.9km  
Gunnerton Colliery Chollerton 2.5m/4.0km  01 May 1934
Gunnerton Pit Chollerton 2.6m/4.2km  01 May 1934
Gunnerton Quarry Gunnerton 2.6m/4.2km  
Half-Way Pit Wall 3.8m/6.1km  
North Tyne Colliery Hexham 3.2m/5.2km  1920's
Prudhamstone Quarry  2.5m/4.1km  
Settlingstones (Witherite) Fourstones 3.7m/6.0km 1690 Apr 1969
Sharpley (Lead Ore)  1.0m/1.7km  
Sillyburn Mine (Lead Ore) Haydon Bridge 5.0m/8.0km  
Stonecroft & Greyside (Lead Ores) Fourstones 3.4m/5.5km 1851 1898
Sutty Row Colliery Wark-on-Tyne 3.1m/5.0km  
Swinburne Quarry (Whinstone) Hexham 3.9m/6.3km  
Teppermoor Old Lead Mines Simondburn 2.5m/4.0km  
Tynedale Colliery Hexham 4.8m/7.8km  1926
Winter Shaft Fourstones 3.7m/6.0km 1690 Apr 1969

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