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:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
2278

Northing:
7183

Grid Reference:
NZ22787183

Lats/Lons:

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