Oxclose Colliery

HER Number

3003

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Oxclose Colliery

Place

Washington

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

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.

Easting

429740

Northing

556000

Grid Reference

NZ429740556000

Sources

<< 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