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3003


Sunderland


Washington, Oxclose Colliery


Washington


NZ25NE


Industrial


Coal Mining Site


Colliery


Early Modern


C19


Documentary Evidence


Oxclose Colliery. This was served by Oxclose Wagonway. Opened before 1805 by George Elliot and Johasshon. Shown on a map of 1807 by D. Akenhead & Sons "The Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne". On 29 November 1805, an explosion killed 38 miners.


2974


5600


NZ29745600



<< HER 3003 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; TY Hall, 1854, List of Mines 1853-4, in Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers; Victoria County History, 1907, Counties of England: Durham

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