Hedley Hill Colliery

Air Shaft

Strata sunk through in a Staple sunk for ventilating purposes at Hedley Hill Colliery, situated about three miles from Tow Law in an Easterly direction. (This colliery is wrought by a drift put in at the hill side.)

Shaft Details

Closed: Nov 1929

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Geology encountered	Thickness		Depth
	ft.	in.	ft.	in.
Soil	4	0	4	0
Post	5	0	9	0
Blue stone	18	0	27	0
Post	15	0	42	0
Blue stone	3	0	45	0
Post	1	0	46	0
Blue stone	4	0	50	0
Post	3	0	53	0
Blue stone	2	0	55	0
Post	4	0	59	0
Blue stone	1	0	60	0
Post	3	0	63	0
Blue stone	3	6	66	6
Post	6	0	72	6
Blue stone	3	0	75	6
Post	1	0	76	6
Blue stone	1	0	77	6
COAL	3	0	80	6

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume F-K, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1885

original entry for sinking/boring number 1126 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume F-K, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1885"

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