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Wingate Grange Colliery

Lord Pit

Account of Sinking and Boring at the Lord Pit, Wingate Grange Colliery, in the County of Durham. 1839

Shaft Details

Sunk: 1839, Closed: 26 Oct 1962

Approximate surface level 400 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Outset    5  0     5  0
Soil    1  0     6  0
Strong blue clay    55  0     61  0
Blue clay, with marly partings    31  0     92  0
Mild, light coloured limestone    81  0     173  0
Yellow limestone, with water    181  0     354  0
Blue limestone    5  6     359  6
Yellow sand    1  2     360  8
White post    16  0     376  8
Blue metal    23  4     400  0
Blue metal    13  8     413  8
Grey metal    18  0     431  8
Blue metal    6  0     437  8
COAL - Three-Quarter Coal Seam    4  7     442  3
    COAL    1  8       
    Stone band    0  2       
    COAL    1  6       
    Stone band    0  3       
    COAL    1  0       
Stone band    1  2     443  5
COAL - Five-Quarter Coal Seam    4  1     447  6
Splint and black stone    1  2     448  8
Grey metal    9  6     458  2
White post    8  1     466  3
Grey metal    3  6     469  9
COAL    0  5     470  2
Black stone    6  0     476  2
Grey metal    14  5     490  7
COAL    0  4     490  11
Black stone    0  10     491  9
White post    35  8     527  5
Grey metal    2  2     529  7
Blue metal    2  6     532  1
Grey metal    1  3     533  4
COAL - Main Coal Seam    5  0     538  4
    COAL    1  5       
    A white stone band    0  5       
    COAL    3  2       
Black stone    1  8     540  0
Thill stone    0  11     540  11
Blue metal    18  3     559  2
Post girdles, with metal partings    7  7     566  9
Blue metal    3  1     569  10
COAL    0  7     570  5
Grey metal    6  7     577  0
Blue metal    4  8     581  8
Grey metal, with post girdles    4  8     586  4
White post    12  11     599  3
Grey metal    2  10     602  1
Dark grey post    19  2     621  3
Blue metal    2  10     624  1
White post    9  6     633  7
Blue metal    1  4     634  11
Dark brown post    3  6     638  5
Strong white post    17  11     656  4
Grey metal, with post girdles    4  11     661  3
COAL - Low Main Seam    1  8     662  11
Black stone    0  7     663  6
White post    1  2     664  8
Grey metal, with post girdles    34  10     699  6
Blue metal    18  3     717  9
Grey metal    4  0     721  9
White post    2  10     724  7
Grey metal, with post girdles    8  7     733  2
White post    2  1     735  3
Blue metal    27  5     762  8
White post    2  1     764  9
Blue metal    10  7     775  4
COAL - Hutton Coal Seam    2  8     778  0
Bored further:-    0  0     778  0
Thill stone    3  3     781  3
Grey metal    13  11     795  2
White post    4  6     799  8
Grey metal, with post girdles    5  1     804  9
Blue metal    2  0     806  9
Grey metal    4  9     811  6
Dark brown post    8  3     819  9
Grey metal    4  6     824  3
Dark brown post    4  5     828  8
Strong white post    18  0     846  8
Dark brown post    3  0     849  8
White post    5  10     855  6
Blue metal    7  8     863  2
Grey metal    21  0     884  2
Discontinued January 17th, 1840, and resumed by Mr. W. Coulson :—    0  0     884  2
Grey metal    6  4     890  6
Black metal    1  4     891  10
COAL    0  8     892  6
Grey metal stone and post girdles    5  5     897  11
COAL    0  3     898  3

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume U-Z, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1897

  original entry for sinking/boring number 2280 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume U-Z, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1897"

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