Coxlodge Colliery, Jubilee Pit

HER Number

4012

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Coxlodge Colliery, Jubilee 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

423450

Northing

568530

Grid Reference

NZ423450568530

Sources

<< HER 4012 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 88; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; TH Hair, 1884, Views of the Collieries in The Counties of Northumberland and Durham; R. Welford, 1879, A History of the Parish of Gosforth