Once the place for a laundry or facility where lined was bleached. According to historian C.A.Smith, thre was an outlet for making linen garments at Bleach Green. He suggests women planted and gathered lyne to weave and bleach at Bleach Green. A Mrs Willis from Houghton reportedly told Smith she had a linen shirt made at Bleach Green.

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows a Quarry, the location of which is unclear on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan.

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows a Toll Road from Sunderland to Durham, with Grindon Turnpike (HER ref. 2922) and Rainton Bridge (HER ref. 3184).

This Trial Shaft is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use by 1857.

Dun Well Pit. Part of Rainton Colliery, which was opened before 1815 and closed in July 1978. Owners were the North Hetton Coal Company (Earl of Durham, Messrs Wood, Philipson, Burrell and others) and Lady FA Vane Londonderry and the Marquess of Londonderry. Rainton Colliery included Adventure Pit (NZ 315 470), Alexandrina Pit (HER 3219), Hazard Pit (HER 3212), Meadows Pit (HER 6848), Nicholson's Pit (HER 3201), North Pit (HER 3197), Plain Pit (HER 3198), Resolution Pit (NZ 311 476). In 1790 a boring had been put down in South Pit in East Rainton by a Mr Rawlings, to a depth of 10 fathoms. Whellan reported that in 1894 Rainton Colliery had 31 stationary engines, 38 boilers, 1185 workers and 835 workmen's houses. The shaft may have been used as a ventilation shaft for the Hazard Colliery. Its pump house existed into the 20th century.

The Rainton and Seaham Railway, North Hetton Branch, linked North Hetton Colliery (HER ref. 3224) with the main Rainton and Seaham line (HER ref. 2976). This line was taken over by the Hetton Coal Company in 1896 and continued to work until 1917, having originally been part of the Londonderry Railway.

With the development of more effective pumping engines to drain previously unworkable deep coal seams and the development of nucleated collieries, the Rainton Waggonway, especially its southern lines, was extensively upgraded and re-organised by the Tempests, to whom it had passed by marriage from the Whartons in 1730. A number of new branch lines to collieries were constructed between 1816 and 1826. The line to Low Moorsley Pit was opened in 1821. This railway spur led from a coal depot, (HER 3203) to Dun Well Pit and the Rainton and Seaham Railway, North Hetton Branch (HER numbers 3206 and 3205 respectively).

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows a Coal Depot on the Rainton and Seaham Railway (HER ref. 2976).

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows a Reservoir at this location.

Nicholson's Pit. Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Opened in 1817. Owners were the North Hetton Coal Company (Earl of Durham, Messrs Wood, Philipson, Burrell and others) and Lady FA Vane Londonderry, Marquess of Londonderry (in 1850s). Part of Rainton Colliery, which was opened before 1815 and closed in July 1978. Rainton Colliery included Adventure Pit (NZ 315 470), Dun Well Pit (HER 3206), Alexandrina Pit (HER 3219), Hazard Pit (HER 3212), Meadows Pit (HER 6848), North Pit (HER 3197), Plain Pit (HER 3198), Resolution Pit (NZ 311 476). In 1790 a boring had been put down in South Pit in East Rainton by a Mr Rawlings, to a depth of 10 fathoms. Whellan reported that in 1894 Rainton Colliery had 31 stationary engines, 38 boilers, 1185 workers and 835 workmen's houses.