Fatfield, Coal Pit (Fatfield Colliery?)

HER Number

3032

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Fatfield, Coal Pit (Fatfield Colliery?)

Place

Fatfield

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

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

Coal Pit, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping so probably out of use by 1858. This is possibly the site of Fatfield Colliery, which opened before 1767. There were several disasters - on 18 August 1708 an explosion killed 69 people. Another in 1763 killed 39 miners. On 17 March 1767 another 39 people were killed, and another 11 on 3 July 1825.

Easting

430840

Northing

554330

Grid Reference

NZ430840554330

Sources

<< HER 3032 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk