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Quarry Drift

OS Grid Ref: NZ 20500 29200

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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

Colliery Location Distance Opened   Closed
Adelaide Colliery Bishop Auckland 1.1m/1.9km 1830 1925
Auckland Park Colliery Bishop Auckland 1.4m/2.3km 1864 1946
Baal Hill Deerness Valley 3.6m/5.8km  
Barrington Pit nr. Bishop Auckland 1.0m/1.6km 1859 1967
Bildershaw Colliery nr. West Auckland 3.0m/4.9km  16 Oct 1956
Binchester Colliery Westerton, Bishop Auckland 2.5m/4.1km 1855 1908
Bishop's Close Colliery Spennymoor 3.2m/5.2km 1860 01 May 1909
Bishop's Park Colliery Bishop Auckland 1.6m/2.7km  
Black Boy Colliery nr. Bishop Auckland 1.3m/2.1km 1830 1939
Bolam Quarry (Whinstone) Heighington 3.8m/6.2km  
Bowden Close Colliery Helmington Row 4.3m/7.0km 1845 Jun 1930
Bowden Close Quarry Helmington Row 4.7m/7.6km  
Brancepeth Brickworks Willington 4.0m/6.5km  
Brancepeth Coking Plant Willington 4.0m/6.5km  
Brancepeth Colliery Willington 4.0m/6.5km 1840 22 Jul 1967
Brusselton Colliery nr. West Auckland 2.6m/4.3km 1834 07 June 1968
Brusselton Tower Colliery nr. West Auckland 2.6m/4.3km 1925 1968
Byers Green Colliery Byers Green 2.8m/4.5km 1841 Jun 1931
Byers Green Quarry Byers Green 2.3m/3.7km  
Carterthorne Colliery Evenwood 3.8m/6.2km  Apr 1927
Catherine Pit St. Helen's Auckland 1.5m/2.4km 1835 31 Dec 1926
Charles Pit Middridge, nr. Shildon 3.3m/5.3km  
Chilton Colliery Chilton 4.6m/7.4km 1872 15 Jan 1966
Coby Carr Quarry Bishop Auckland 3.1m/5.1km  
Copeland House Colliery nr. West Auckland 3.2m/5.2km  Jan 1948
Copy Crooks Colliery Shildon 1.8m/3.0km  
Copy Crooks Colliery (Seymour's) Shildon 1.6m/2.7km  
Corving Pit Witton-le-Wear 2.4m/3.9km  Jun 1923
Coundon Gate Pit Coundon 1.4m/2.3km  
Cox House Colliery Evenwood 4.4m/7.1km  05 Nov 1927
Cragg Wood Colliery Cockfield 4.8m/7.8km  
Crook Colliery Crook 4.8m/7.7km  
Crook Drift Crook 4.9m/7.9km 1935 21 Nov 1964
Deanery Colliery Shildon 1.3m/2.2km  
Deborah Opencast West Auckland 2.3m/3.7km  
Dowfold Quarry Helmington Row 4.7m/7.6km  
Drift Evenwood 4.1m/6.6km  
Drift Evenwood 4.3m/7.0km  
Drift Evenwood 4.5m/7.3km  
East Pasture Opencast Bishop Auckland 4.6m/7.4km  
Eden Pit Middridge, nr. Shildon 3.6m/5.8km  
Eldon Colliery Shildon 2.2m/3.6km 1829 Jul 1932
Eldon Deep Extension Opencast Bishop Auckland 2.1m/3.4km  
Eldon Deep Opencast Bishop Auckland 2.5m/4.0km  
Eldon Drift Shildon 2.9m/4.7km 1934 Oct 1962
Eldon Quarry/Brickworks Bishop Auckland 2.1m/3.5km  
Etherley Grange Colliery Etherley 1.0m/1.6km  
Etherley Lane Drift Bishop Auckland 0.2m/0.4km  
Evenwood Colliery Evenwood 4.2m/6.8km 1836 Dec 1912
Fiddlers Bank Drift Low Staindrop 3.1m/5.1km  
Fredericks West Pit Witton-le-Wear 3.8m/6.2km  
Furnace Pit Shildon 2.5m/4.1km 1864 1937
Gaugers Arms Drift West Auckland 2.6m/4.3km  
George Pit Etherley 1.2m/2.0km  
Gibson Pit Bishop Auckland 2.1m/3.5km  1921
Gibson's Pit Willington 2.6m/4.2km 1841 
Greenhead Colliery Harperley 4.8m/7.7km  24 May 1907
Gurney Pit  2.2m/3.6km 1830 1939
Haggs Lane Drift nr. Shildon 2.2m/3.6km  Jan 1964
Hargill Colliery Witton-le-Wear 3.8m/6.1km  03 Nov 1934
Hargill Hill Colliery Witton-le-Wear 3.8m/6.1km  03 Nov 1934
Harry Pit Shildon 2.2m/3.6km 1829 Jul 1932
High Pit Ferryhill 4.7m/7.6km  
High Toft Hill Extension Opencast Bishop Auckland 3.7m/6.0km  
Hole-in-the-Wall Colliery Crook 4.9m/7.9km 1935 21 Nov 1964
Howden Colliery Howden-le-Wear 3.6m/5.9km  04 Sep 1907
Hummerbeck Colliery West Auckland 2.8m/4.5km  02 Jul 1909
Hunwick Colliery Bishop Auckland 2.1m/3.5km  20 Aug 1921
Jane Pit Bishop Auckland 1.5m/2.4km  1925
Jane Pit Etherley 2.1m/3.5km  
Jawblades Colliery Coundon 1.6m/2.7km  
Job's Hill Colliery Crook 4.3m/6.9km  
John George Pit Hunwick 2.5m/4.0km  
John Henry Pit Shildon 2.4m/3.9km 1829 Jul 1932
Ladysmith Colliery Brusselton 2.3m/3.8km  July 1949
Leasingthorne Brickworks nr. Coundon 3.0m/4.8km  
Leasingthorne Colliery nr. Coundon 3.0m/4.8km 1836 Oct 1967
Long Lane Quarry Bishop Auckland 2.8m/4.5km  
Low Beechburn Colliery Crook 4.3m/6.9km  
Low Bitchburn Colliery Crook 4.3m/6.9km  1937
Lutterington Hall Opencast Bishop Auckland 3.1m/5.1km  
Machine Pit Bishop Auckland 1.3m/2.2km  1946
Marshall Green Colliery Witton le Wear 3.4m/5.5km 1830 1936
Merrington Colliery Spennymoor 3.9m/6.3km 1846 03 Jun 1928
Merrington Lane Colliery Spennymoor 4.7m/7.6km  
Merrington Lane Drift Spennymoor 4.1m/6.7km  
Merrington Park Colliery Spennymoor 3.9m/6.3km  08 Aug 1927
Michael Pit Byers Green 2.8m/4.5km 1841 Jun 1931
Middlestone Moor Colliery Middlestone Moor 2.6m/4.2km  1965
Middridge Colliery Middridge, nr. Shildon 3.3m/5.3km  
Middridge Drift nr. Shildon 2.8m/4.5km 1954 1992?
Middridge Quarry (Limestone) Middridge, Shildon 3.6m/5.8km  
New Carterthorne Colliery Evenwood 4.0m/6.4km  
New Shildon Colliery Shildon 2.4m/3.9km 1949 Aug 1965
Newfield Colliery Willington 2.6m/4.2km 1841 
Newton Cap Colliery nr. Bishop Auckland 1.0m/1.6km 1859 1967
No. 1 Shaft Willington (Hunwick) 2.4m/3.9km  1930's
North Beechburn Colliery Howden-le-Wear 3.0m/4.8km 1845 1966
North Bitchburn Colliery Howden-le-Wear 3.0m/4.8km 1845 1966
North Close Colliery Spennymoor 3.9m/6.3km  
North Pit  1.3m/2.2km 1830 1939
North/Engine Pit Bishop Auckland 0.6m/1.0km 1835 Mar 1934
Northern Pit Shildon 2.2m/3.6km 1829 Jul 1932
Norwich Pit Helmington Row 4.4m/7.1km 1845 Jun 1930
Norwood Colliery Evenwood 4.1m/6.7km  Mar 1912
Old Towns Quarry Middridge 4.3m/6.9km  
Paddock Mire Colliery  4.7m/7.6km  
Page Bank Colliery Page Bank 4.1m/6.6km 1855 Jul 1931
Park Drift Mine Willington, Co. Durham 4.2m/6.8km 1983 
Park House Colliery  4.3m/7.0km  
Pasture Pit  1.3m/2.2km 1830 1939
Phoenix Pit Etherley 2.1m/3.5km  
Pickering Quarry  4.8m/7.7km  
Pit Close Colliery Morley 4.5m/7.2km  
Princes Street Drift nr. Shildon 2.0m/3.2km 1939 1958
Providence Pit Cockfield 4.0m/6.5km 1834 
Railey Fell Colliery Evenwood 2.7m/4.4km  
Ramshaw Colliery West Auckland 2.7m/4.4km 1942 Oct 1959
Randolph Colliery nr. Evenwood 4.0m/6.4km 1893 17 Feb 1962
Randolph Pit Evenwood 4.2m/6.8km 1836 Dec 1912
Rock Colliery Spennymoor 3.9m/6.3km  
Rough Lea Colliery Hunwick 2.8m/4.5km 1858 1931
Rumby Hill Colliery Crook (Hunwick) 4.1m/6.6km  
Shildon 'B' Pit Shildon 1.8m/2.9km 1810 1830
Shildon Colliery Shildon 3.0m/4.8km  15 Mar 1924
Shildon 'D' Pit Shildon 1.7m/2.8km 1810 1830
Shildon Lodge Colliery Shildon 2.1m/3.4km 1830 1937
South Brancepeth Colliery Page Bank 4.1m/6.6km 1855 Jul 1931
South Church Drift Bishop Auckland 1.2m/2.0km  27 Aug 1938
South Durham Colliery Shildon 2.2m/3.6km 1829 Jul 1932
South Shildon Colliery Shildon 3.0m/4.8km 1929 Aug 1958
Spennymoor Pit Spennymoor 3.9m/6.3km 1846 June 1927
St. Helen's Colliery St. Helen's Auckland 1.4m/2.3km 1831 31 Dec 1926
Staindrop Field House Drift nr. Evenwood Gate 3.2m/5.2km  Jul 1967
Stonechester Colliery Hamsterley 4.8m/7.8km  
Storey Lodge Colliery Cockfield 4.7m/7.6km  
Sun Colliery Wackerfield, Evenwood 4.7m/7.6km  
Sunnybrow Colliery Willington 3.1m/5.0km 1840 1932
Tees Hetton Colliery Evenwood 3.5m/5.7km  
Thickley Quarry (Limestone) Thickley, Shildon 3.1m/5.0km  
Thistle Flat Colliery Crook 4.2m/6.8km  
Throstle Gill Colliery Bishop Auckland 2.2m/3.6km  1943
Thrushwood Pit Bishop Auckland 3.5m/5.6km 1989 1992
Tindale Colliery Bishop Auckland 0.6m/1.0km 1835 Mar 1934
Tindale Pit St. Helen's Auckland 1.4m/2.3km 1831 31 Dec 1926
Todhills Brickworks Opencast Todhills 3.1m/5.1km  
Todhills Quarry Bishop Auckland 3.0m/4.8km  
Toft Hill Quarry Etherley 3.3m/5.3km  
Toronto Colliery nr. Bishop Auckland 1.0m/1.6km 1859 1967
Tudhoe Grange Colliery Spennymoor 4.6m/7.5km 1869 Mar 1885
Tudhoe Mill Drift Tudhoe 4.8m/7.8km 1954 Feb 1965
Tunnel Drift Shildon 2.0m/3.3km  
Vinovium Drift Spennymoor 1.9m/3.1km  
West Auckland Colliery West Auckland 2.0m/3.3km 1838 Jul 1967
West Carterthorne Colliery Evenwood 4.0m/6.4km  
West Durham Wallsend Colliery Shildon 1.8m/3.0km  
West Hunwick Colliery Willington (Hunwick) 2.4m/3.9km  1930's
West Hunwick Quarry (Clay) Hunwick 2.5m/4.0km  
Westerton Colliery Westerton, Bishop Auckland 2.5m/4.1km 1838 Oct 1961
Whitton Park Quarry Bishop Auckland 2.3m/3.8km  
Whitworth Park Colliery Spennymoor 4.0m/6.5km 1841 29 Jul 1974
William Pit Witton-le-Wear 2.4m/3.9km  Jun 1923
Willington Colliery Willington 3.1m/5.0km 1840 1932
Witton Park Colliery Witton-le-Wear 2.4m/3.9km  Jun 1923
Woodhouse Close Colliery Bishop Auckland 0.6m/1.0km 1835 Mar 1934
Woodhouse Close Colliery Bishop Auckland 0.6m/1.0km  
Woodhouses Colliery Bishop Auckland 1.2m/2.0km  
Woodifield Colliery Crook 4.6m/7.4km  

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