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Heights Quarry
| Location: |
Westgate
14 miles [22 km] ESE of Alston
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 91, 92) NY925388, 54° 44' 38" N, 2° 6' 59" W |
| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
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| Owners: |
1980s - Ogdens Roadstone Ltd. |
| Output: |
1896 - Limestone. |
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1897 - Limestone. |
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1905 - Limestone. |
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1922 - Limestone. |
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1984 - Limestone. |
| Employment: |
1896 - 13 (11 below, 2 surface) |
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1897 - 37 (35 below, 2 surface) |
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1905 - 50 (48 below, 2 surface) |
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1922 - 0 [Not worked during 1922] |
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
Names of those killed at this colliery
No names found.
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
 a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Heights Quarry
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Heights Quarry
Gallery Images:
Credits
Sources:
- 1896 List of Quarries
- 1897 List of Quarries
- 1905 List of Quarries
- 1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1984 Directory of Mines & Quarries published by The British Geological Survey
- Industrial Locomotives of Durham by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1977
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