Wagonway from East Holywell Colliery, NZ 3123 7314. Terminates at junction with Backworth Wagonway at NZ 3063 7149. Marked "East Holywell Colliery Railway" on 2nd edn OS Mapping, with a remodelled junction with the Backworth Wagonway and a new one with the NER Blyth & Tyne/Backworth & Morpeth Line (HER 1055).

Toll Road. Enters/leaves the county at NZ 3210 7306. Had Earsdon TP along it's route (SMR 1150). Appears, from 1st edn OS mapping to end at NZ3459 7085.

Blyth and Tyne Railway. Enters the County at NZ 3255 7473. Its southern termini were at Tynemouth & North Shields, (SMRs 2046,2050). On 2nd edn OS mapping this line has been lifted between NZ 3511 7168 and NZ 3620 6940 the southernmost section of track was reused as part of the NER, Newcastle, Tynemouth & Newcastle line (SMR 2155). The southern part of this line followed the course of the earlier Whitley Wagonway, from Whitley Colliery to Low Lights Staith, which was opened in 1811 by Clarke & Taylor. The Railway was built in 1857, opened in 1860 and abandoned in 1887 when the new eastern loop (SMR 2155) was opened. Spital Dean Bridge (SMR 2052) carried this line over Cutthroat Lane, just north of Tynemouth.

East Holywell Colliery, Fenwick Pit, served by wagonways (HER 1051 & 1059). 2nd edn OS mapping shows expansion of internal wagonways, buildings and spoil heaps. Opened in 1828 with the sinking of the Clennell or A Pit. In the 1850s the owners were Plummer, Taylor, Clark and Lamb, later Hugh Taylor & Co, and then East Holywell Coal Company Ltd.The Fenwick Pit or B Pit was sunk in 1874. There was another pit called D Pit at NZ 311 749 (in Northumberland). A mineral railway was built to serve the colliery and a pit village of four terraces was built. An extensive spoil heap grew on the east side of the colliery. Pithead baths were opened in 1939. After the coal industry was nationalised in 1946 many of the buildings were rebuilt or refurbished. Production gradually declined and by the late 1960s the houses had been demolished. The pit closed in August 1973 and the railway was lifted. In 2013 the colliery buildings were recorded by Durham University. They are in a vandalised state. The older buildings are brick, the later part of the workshop/store is walled and roofed with corrugated steel sheets. The winding house has a pitched roof covered with corrugated asbestos cement sheets. The shed on the west wall first appears on OS maps after 1961. The L-shaped office building of painted red brick dates to 1957-1961. It has a projecting porch and tall chimney. Flat concrete roof, extended at the south-west corner into a canopy supported by steel posts. The electrical transformer building is painted brick. It was built after 1940 and is probably contemporary with the winding house. The building It has a flat roof with louvred ventilator shafts. There are ceramic ducts in the walls and channels in the concrete floors to carry large electric cables. The workshop/stores is the largest building on the site. It has been created by linking three older brick buildings. Two of these have open steel roof trusses. A concrete block over a door is dated 1953. The buildings were altered and extended with a steel frame after 1972. The winding house is the tallest building on the site. It housed the engine that raised tubs and men up and down the pit shaft. The original winding house, for a steam engine, was replaced with this one in 1946. The date is on a stone in the west face. Tall square brick building with gabled roof. Single-storey buildings adjoin the building, including the support for the angled steel legs of the winding gear. The older brick buildings are linked by a steel-framed shaed with corrugated cladding. Tall metal-framed windows light the upper storey. This housed the 450 hp Metropolitan Vickers electric motor, the winding drum and brake gear. These are now in No.2 winding house at Woodhorn Colliery. High on the east wall are two bells and a keps indicator. The bells told the banksmen when the cage reached the surface or the pit bottom. The indicator showed that keps or dogs were in position to lock the cage in place at the top of the shaft for loading or unloading.

Alison Deegan: The East Holywell Colliery is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1865. It occupied a rectangular plot beside Brierdean Burn. Air photos taken in the late 1940s show large spoil heaps, wagonway, several colliery buildings, reservoirs and several short rows of terrace houses. Some of the colliery buildings survive but most other elements have been demolished or relandscaped.

"Old Shaft (Ironstone)" next to Whitley Links. Ironstone was worked in galleries by monks during the 18th century. The workings became uneconomical after the opening of the Cleveland ironstone mines in the early part of the 19th century. Spoil was dumped on the links at Whitley, but much was washed away by the sea {2}. Large areas of the sea front have been mined for ironstone since 18th century. The Northumberland County History refers to the workings of waste heaps of older coal pits on Whitley Links for ironstone. The Rev. Hodgson, writing in 1821, referred to rubbish heaps of old coal pits, "in them massive pieces of ironstone in flattened spheres". Many workings were filled in when the Interceptor sewer was constructed in the 1970s {3}. The potential remains of post medieval ironstone mines are visible as earthworks on air photographs, centred at NZ 353 729. The largest pit measures approximately 15m across and is situated at NZ 3535 7288, a further cluster of pits is situated at NZ 3531 7298 .The feature appears to be no longer extant on the latest 1988 Ordnance Survey vertical photography.

"Old Shaft (Ironstone)" next to Whitley Links. Ironstone was worked in galleries by monks during the 18th century. The workings became uneconomical after the opening of the Cleveland ironstone mines in the early part of the 19th century. Spoil was dumped on the links at Whitley, but much was washed away by the sea {2}. Large areas of the sea front have been mined for ironstone since 18th century. The Northumberland County History refers to the workings of waste heaps of older coal pits on Whitley Links for ironstone. The Rev. Hodgson, writing in 1821, referred to rubbish heaps of old coal pits, "in them massive pieces of ironstone in flattened spheres". Many workings were filled in when the Interceptor sewer was constructed in the 1970s {3}.

"Old Shaft (Ironstone)" next to Whitley Links. Ironstone was worked in galleries by monks during the 18th century. The workings became uneconomical after the opening of the Cleveland ironstone mines in the early part of the 19th century. Spoil was dumped on the links at Whitley, but much was washed away by the sea {2}. Large areas of the sea front have been mined for ironstone since 18th century. The Northumberland County History refers to the workings of waste heaps of older coal pits on Whitley Links for ironstone. The Rev. Hodgson, writing in 1821, referred to rubbish heaps of old coal pits, "in them massive pieces of ironstone in flattened spheres". Many workings were filled in when the Interceptor sewer was constructed in the 1970s {3}.

"Brier Dean T.P. (Private)" toll House on Blyth Road shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

900 yard Practice Range, adjacent to Hartley South Farm, shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Mill Dam shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.