Winlaton Colliery

HER Number

633

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Winlaton Colliery

Place

Winlaton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

There was a colliery at Winlaton in 1366/7 when it provided Edward III with 576 chaldrons of coal for works at Windsor Castle. In the mid 16th century "Westmorland Colliery", i.e. all the coal mines in the manor of Winlaton, were leased for 30 years to Cuthbert Blunt who sublet to Christopher Cooke. The location of the - probably numerous - pits of this period are unknown.

Easting

417000

Northing

562000

Grid Reference

NZ417000562000

Sources

<< HER 633 >> W. Page, ed. 1905, Victoria County History, Durham, II, 322, 326
W. Bourn, 1896, History of the Parish of Ryton, 112-114
W.E. Gibson, 1945, The Manor of Winlaton, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XXIII, 15