Coxlodge Colliery, Bower Pit

HER Number

6924

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Coxlodge Colliery, Bower Pit

Place

Coxlodge

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

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

Opened before 1821, closed 1894. Coxlodge Colliery had three pits Bower Pit, Jubilee or North Pit and Regent or Engine Pit. Owners of the colliery in the 1850s were Bell and Brandling, then Joshua Bower, then Burradon and Coxlodge Colliers, and lastly NG Lambert & Co. An explosion on 6 March 1863 killed 19 people.

Easting

423700

Northing

569300

Grid Reference

NZ423700569300

Sources

Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; TH Hair, 1844, Views of the Collieries in The Counties of Northumberland and Durham