Logo Museum
Museum
Friends of Durham Mining Museum
Events Calendar
e-Books and Books for sale
Photograph Gallery
Document Archive
Master Name Index
What's new in the site
Mining
Mining History
Colliery Index
Colliery Index
Shaft cross sections
Borings and Sinkings
List of Mines
Colliery Managers
Abandoned Seams
Colliery Maps
Company Overviews
Who's Who
Mineral Information
Managers Certificates
Educational Material
Bibliography
Statistics
Workers/Employee Lists
Notes for Family Historians
War Service information
Disasters
Disaster Reports
Names of those killed
Disasters in the 1700s
Disasters in the 1800s
Disasters in the 1900s
Memorials
Awards for Gallantry
On this day ...

Links to other sites of interest
Industrial Heritage Days Out
Former www.pitwork.net web site

Index to site

Contact and address details

Share Page with Social Media

Share on Facebook

Share with Reddit

Share on Delicious


  West Thornley Colliery  Index  West Thornley Colliery  
/ Index \

West Thornley Colliery

OS Grid Ref: NZ 13300 38600

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Colliery map   Simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of West Thornley Colliery

Colliery Page   main page for West Thornley Colliery

In the following table the value given for the distance (miles/kilometres) from West Thornley Colliery are "as the crow flies" and are provided as an indication only.

Colliery Location Distance Opened   Closed
Abbots Close Colliery Crook 2.1m/3.4km  02 Jun 1928
Arthur Pit Crook 1.1m/1.9km  
Baal Hill Deerness Valley 4.1m/6.7km  
Ballarat Drift Ivesley Lane, Cornsay Colliery 3.0m/4.9km 1960 1974
Bankfoot Coking Plant Crook 2.1m/3.4km  Oct 1960
Bells House Colliery Cornsay 2.9m/4.7km 1928 May 1935
Big Pit Crook 1.5m/2.5km  
Black Prince Colliery Tow Law 1.0m/1.7km 1846 1933
Blackfield Colliery Tow Law 1.3m/2.1km 1865 17 Sep 1928
Blakeley Colliery Hargill 4.1m/6.7km 1885 1895
Bolckow Pit Crook 1.9m/3.1km  
Bounder House Tow Law 2.0m/3.2km 1916 1933
Bounder House Quarry (Ganister) Tow Law 1.9m/3.1km  
Bowden Close Colliery Helmington Row 3.4m/5.5km 1845 Jun 1930
Bowden Close Quarry Helmington Row 3.0m/4.8km  
Brancepeth Brickworks Willington 4.8m/7.7km  
Brancepeth Coking Plant Willington 4.8m/7.7km  
Brancepeth Colliery Willington 4.8m/7.7km 1840 22 Jul 1967
Brooms Drift Hedley Hill 1.7m/2.8km  1883
Burnhill (Lead Ore)  4.9m/7.9km  
Butsfield Quarry (Ganister) nr. Consett 4.3m/6.9km  
Byerleyhouse Quarry Satley 3.7m/6.0km  
Chapelflat Drift Cornsay 3.0m/4.9km  
Clifford Drift Lanchester 4.4m/7.1km  
Coalford Quarry Satley 3.0m/4.8km  
Cold Knott Colliery Nr. Crook 1.8m/2.9km  28 Apr 1926
Colepike Drift Lanchester 4.6m/7.4km  
Colpike Drift Cornsay 4.6m/7.4km 1868 Sep 1953
Cornsay Colliery Cornsay 3.8m/6.1km 1868 Sep 1953
Craig Lea Colliery Harperley 1.4m/2.3km  Apr 1929
Crook Colliery Crook 2.6m/4.3km  
Crook Drift Crook 2.6m/4.2km 1935 21 Nov 1964
Dearness Opencast Tow Law 0.3m/0.5km  
Dowfold Quarry Helmington Row 2.8m/4.6km  
Dry Pry Lead Ore  5.0m/8.0km  
Drypry Vein Wolsingham, Weardale 5.0m/8.0km  
East Bustfield Quarry  4.1m/6.7km  
East Hedley Hope Colliery nr. Tow Law 1.8m/3.0km 1836 31 Jan 1959
Edward Pit Tow Law 0.4m/0.7km  1945
Emma Pit Crook 1.9m/3.1km 1844 10 Aug 1963
Esh Colliery Esh Winning 4.5m/7.2km 1866 Jun 1968
Etherley Colliery Etherley 3.3m/5.4km  
Fir Tree Colliery Harperley 2.6m/4.2km  
Ford Drift Cornsay 4.6m/7.4km 1868 Sep 1953
Fredericks West Pit Witton-le-Wear 4.5m/7.3km  
Gibsons Drift Tow Law 0.0m/0.1km  
Gladdow Colliery Cornsay 2.8m/4.6km  
Greenhead Colliery Harperley 2.8m/4.5km  24 May 1907
Greenlands Drift Quebec, Co. Durham 4.8m/7.8km  
Greenwell Wood Drift nr. Lanchester 4.5m/7.2km  
Hall Harvey Drift Lanchester 4.5m/7.2km  
Hamsteels Colliery nr. Esh Winning 4.1m/6.6km 1868 1958
Hargill Colliery Witton-le-Wear 3.7m/6.0km  03 Nov 1934
Hargill Hill Colliery Witton-le-Wear 3.7m/6.0km  03 Nov 1934
Harperley Colliery Crook 1.4m/2.3km  
Hedley Hill Colliery nr. Tow Law 2.5m/4.1km 1870's Nov 1929
Hedleyhope Colliery Tow Law 0.4m/0.7km 1836 1945
Helme Park Colliery Roddymoor 1.3m/2.2km  
Heugh Drift Esh 4.5m/7.2km  
High Drift Cornsay 3.8m/6.1km 1868 Sep 1953
High East Park Opencast Crook 1.1m/1.9km  
Hole-in-the-Wall Colliery Crook 2.6m/4.2km 1935 21 Nov 1964
Hollin Hall Colliery Fir Tree, Crook 2.6m/4.2km  
Howden Colliery Howden-le-Wear 3.6m/5.9km  04 Sep 1907
Humber Hill Drift Consett 4.5m/7.3km  09 Nov 1963
Inkerman Colliery Tow Law 1.4m/2.3km 1873 
Inkermann Groove Pit  2.1m/3.5km  
Job's Hill Colliery Crook 3.2m/5.2km  
Josephine Pit nr. Waterhouses 2.3m/3.8km 1857 Nov 1911
Lady Jane Pit Cornsay Fell 0.8m/1.3km  
Little Pit Crook 1.5m/2.5km  
Lound Groove Drift Esh 4.5m/7.2km  
Low Beechburn Colliery Crook 3.0m/4.9km  
Low Bitchburn Colliery Crook 3.0m/4.9km  1937
Low Drift Cornsay 3.8m/6.1km 1868 Sep 1953
Lucy Pit Crook 1.9m/3.1km 1844 10 Aug 1963
Marshall Green Colliery Witton le Wear 4.5m/7.2km 1830 1936
Mossy Burn Colliery Tow Law 1.5m/2.5km  
No. 1 Crook 2.1m/3.4km  02 Jun 1928
No. 1 Drift nr. Billy Row 2.3m/3.8km 1955 May 1968
No. 2 Crook 2.1m/3.4km  02 Jun 1928
No. 2 Drift nr. Billy Row 2.3m/3.8km 1955 May 1968
No. 3 Crook 2.1m/3.4km  02 Jun 1928
North Beechburn Colliery Howden-le-Wear 4.3m/7.0km 1845 1966
North Bitchburn Colliery Howden-le-Wear 4.4m/7.1km 1845 1966
Norwich Pit Helmington Row 3.5m/5.7km 1845 Jun 1930
Oakenshaw Colliery nr. Brancepeth 4.1m/6.6km  
Park Drift Mine Willington, Co. Durham 4.7m/7.6km 1983 
Partridge Close Quarry Satley 3.5m/5.6km  
Pease's West Colliery Crook 1.9m/3.1km 1844 10 Aug 1963
Quickburn Quarry Consett 4.1m/6.7km  
Ragpathside Colliery Cornsay 3.8m/6.2km  
Ravensbush Drift Cornsay 3.3m/5.4km  
Red House Colliery Crook 1.5m/2.4km  
Rippon's Outlet Quarry Satley 3.9m/6.3km  
Roddymoor Colliery Crook 1.9m/3.1km 1844 10 Aug 1963
Rough Lea Colliery Hunwick 4.8m/7.8km 1858 1931
Royal George Pit Cornsay Fell 0.9m/1.5km 1845 
Rumby Hill Colliery Crook (Hunwick) 3.2m/5.2km  
Rush Pit Etherley 3.3m/5.4km 1869 
Shaw Knight Ballarat Drift Cornsay 3.1m/5.0km  
Stanley Colliery nr. Waterhouses 2.5m/4.1km bef. 1828 Nov 1911
Stanley Cottage Drift nr. Billy Row 2.3m/3.8km 1955 May 1968
Steeleyburn Quarry Satley 3.3m/5.3km  
Success Pit Etherley 3.3m/5.4km  
Sunniside Colliery Tow Law 0.9m/1.5km 1867 11 Apr 1925
Sunnybrow Colliery Willington 4.8m/7.7km 1840 1932
Tanners Hall Colliery Willington 3.1m/5.0km  1957
Tanners Hall Opencast Tow Law 2.9m/4.7km  
Taylor Pit nr. Esh Winning 4.1m/6.6km 1868 1958
Thistle Flat Colliery Crook 3.1m/5.0km  
Thornley Pit Tow Law 0.5m/0.9km  
Victoria Pit Hedley Fell 1.1m/1.8km  
Viewly Hill (Ganister) Tow Law 2.3m/3.7km  1923
Waterhouses Colliery Waterhouses 3.5m/5.7km 1859 Aug 1966
West Brandon Drift nr. Waterhouses 4.1m/6.6km aft.1947 22 Aug 1958
West Butsfield Middle Quarry  4.5m/7.3km  
West Butsfield Triangular Quarry  4.3m/7.0km  
West Butsfield West Triangular Quarry  4.8m/7.7km  
West Harvey Drift Lanchester 4.3m/6.9km  
White Lea Colliery Crook 1.9m/3.1km 1855 
Wilkshill Quarry Cornsay 4.1m/6.6km  
Willington Colliery Willington 4.8m/7.7km 1840 1932
Wolsingham Park (Lead Ore) Burnhill 5.0m/8.0km  
Woodburn Quarry Satley 4.4m/7.1km  
Woodifield Colliery Crook 2.6m/4.3km  
Wooley Colliery nr. Crook 2.8m/4.5km  1963
Wooley Pit Crook 2.8m/4.5km  10 Aug 1963

Colliery Map   Simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of West Thornley Colliery

Colliery Page   main page for West Thornley Colliery

mail
Mail:
Webmaster
Back
Back
Home
Home
Open Government Licence   Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Copyright © 1999-2024 by The Durham Mining Museum and its contributors
Registered Charity No: 1110608
Page last updated: 31 Dec 2022

Privacy Policy
 
Terms & Conditions
 
Search
Search
Print
Print
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z