Moorsley, North Hetton Colliery (Moorsley Colliery)

HER Number:
3224

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Moorsley, North Hetton Colliery (Moorsley Colliery)

Place:
Moorsley

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

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:
North Hetton Colliery. The colliery was served by the Rainton and Seaham Railway North Hetton Branch, (HER 2305). Opened 1821, closed 1935. Owned by the North Hetton Coal Company (Earl of Durham, Wood, Philipson, Burrell etc) in the 1850s and later by the Lambton and Hetton Colleries Ltd. Whellan reports in 1894 that daily output of coal was 360 tons. There were 320 workers and an associated firebrick works which made 60,000 bricks per week and a gas retort works. In Moorsley village, the colliery company built a Mission Chapel (of St Cuthbert's Church, East Rainton), a Wesleyan methodist chapel and a Primitive methodist chapel. A school was built in 1871 for 360 children.

Easting:
3419

Northing:
4636

Grid Reference:
NZ34194636

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3224 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1861, 6 inch scale, Durham20; www.dmm.org.uk; N. Emery, 1998, Banners of the Durham Coalfield; Whellan, 1894, Directory of County Durham; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas p247; Vance, S. 2017. Land adjacent to Hetton Road, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear: Historic Environment Desk-based assessment, Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd