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Westwood Colliery

OS Grid Ref: NZ 11200 56700

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Colliery map   Simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Westwood Colliery

Colliery Page   main page for Westwood Colliery

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

Colliery Location Distance Opened   Closed
A Pit Garesfield 1.8m/3.0km 1837 
A Pit Greenside 3.6m/5.8km  
Allendale Drift Ebchester 0.8m/1.3km  
Andrew Pit Wylam 4.7m/7.6km  
Anne Pit nr. Burnopfield 3.1m/5.1km 1855 Mar 1929
Annie Pit nr. Dipton 3.0m/4.8km 1864 Jul 1980
Ash Tree Colliery Winlaton 3.2m/5.2km 1798 
Ashtree Drift Blaydon 2.5m/4.1km  
Ashtree Pit Blaydon 3.0m/4.8km bef. 1857 
B Pit Greenside 3.8m/6.2km  
Bankside Pit Chopwell 2.1m/3.4km bef. 1862 
Bantling Castle Colliery Annfield Plain 3.6m/5.9km  
Barcus Close Colliery nr. Burnopfield 3.7m/6.0km  Apr 1966
Barlow Fell Drift Barlow 3.7m/6.0km  Oct 1961
Barlow Towneley Drift Barlow 3.7m/6.0km  Oct 1961
Barlowfell Quarry High Spen 3.5m/5.6km  
Barlowfield Drift Rowlands Gill 3.8m/6.1km  
Beaumont Drift nr. Rowlands Gill 3.0m/4.8km  
Betty Pit Chopwell 3.0m/4.9km  
Billingside Drift Leadgate 2.3m/3.7km  Jan 1879
Blackhill Colliery Blackhill 3.2m/5.2km bef. 1866 Aug 1910
Blaydon Burn Colliery Blaydon Burn 4.8m/7.8km 1850s 03 Nov 1956
Blaydon Quarry Blaydon 4.3m/6.9km  
Bog Pit Pontop 3.6m/5.8km  
Boghole Drift Crook Hall, nr. Consett 4.0m/6.5km  
Brack Pit Kyo 3.9m/6.3km  
Bradley Colliery Leadgate 3.1m/5.1km  bef. 1875?
Bradley Drift Leadgate 2.4m/3.9km 1963 25 Sep 1966
Brass Thill Drift nr. Tantobie 2.9m/4.7km 1874 Mar 1929
Broadoak Quarry Consett 0.8m/1.3km  
Brockwell Drift Chopwell 0.2m/0.4km  
Broom Pit Collierly 4.0m/6.4km  
Bryan's Leap Colliery Rowlands Gill 3.5m/5.6km  1950
Burnhills - Blaydon Quarry Ryton 4.3m/6.9km  
Burnopfield Colliery Burnopfield 3.8m/6.1km 1742 09 Aug 1968
Bush Blades Colliery Collierly 3.6m/5.9km  
Busty Drift nr. Rowlands Gill 2.8m/4.6km  
Busty Pit Medomsley 1.9m/3.1km  06 Oct 1972
Busty Seam Drift Medomsley 2.3m/3.8km  
Bute Pit Garesfield 2.5m/4.1km 11 Sep 1869 
Bute Pit Tanfield Lea 5.0m/8.0km  25 Aug 1962
Byermoor Colliery Byermoor 4.6m/7.5km 1860 02 Feb 1968
Bywell Bridge Quarry Merryshields 4.6m/7.5km  
Carr House Pit nr. Consett 3.5m/5.7km 1870 09 Nov 1963
Charlie Pit Medomsley 1.3m/2.1km 1889 21 Nov 1964
Chopwell Colliery Chopwell 1.1m/1.9km 1781 25 Nov 1966
Chopwell Mill Staple Chopwell 0.7m/1.2km  
Chopwell North Terrace Drift A Chopwell 1.1m/1.8km 1920 
Chopwell North Terrace Drift B Chopwell 1.1m/1.9km 1924 
Clinty Drift Garesfield 2.3m/3.8km  
Conclusion Pit Chopwell 1.6m/2.6km 1799 25 Nov 1966
Conquest Pit Tantobie 3.6m/5.9km  Oct 1948
Consett Colliery Blackhill 3.2m/5.2km bef. 1866 Aug 1910
Coronation Drift Blaydon 2.0m/3.3km  
Coronation Drift nr. Dipton 2.6m/4.2km  Jul 1980
Cowen's Pit Blaydon Burn 4.8m/7.8km 1872 03 Nov 1956
Crawcrook Quarry Crawcrook 4.5m/7.2km  
Crawford's Elizabeth Pit Crawcrook 3.9m/6.3km 1796 
Creswell Pit Annfield Plain 4.4m/7.1km  
Creswell Pit Annfield Plain 4.6m/7.4km  
Crookbank Colliery Burnopfield 4.6m/7.5km bef. 1847 
Crookhall Colliery Consett 4.0m/6.4km 1830 09 Nov 1963
D Pit Medomsley 1.3m/2.1km 1889 21 Nov 1964
Delves Colliery Delves, nr. Consett 4.0m/6.5km 1847 Sep 1913
Derwent Colliery Medomsley 1.3m/2.1km 1856 21 Nov 1964
Derwent Cote Quarry  1.3m/2.1km  
Dipton Colliery Dipton 3.3m/5.3km Apr 1855 Nov 1940
Drift  4.6m/7.5km  
Drift  4.5m/7.3km  
Duke Pit Chopwell 2.0m/3.2km  
Dummys Pit  0.3m/0.6km bef. 1790 
Earl Pit Chopwell 1.5m/2.5km bef. 1857 
East Castle Colliery Annfield Plain 3.8m/6.1km  
East Drift Chopwell 1.3m/2.2km  
East Pontop Colliery Annfield Plain 4.0m/6.4km  1930
East Shaft Chopwell 0.6m/1.0km  bef. 1922
Ebchester Main Colliery Ebchester 0.3m/0.6km  
Ebchester Opencast Ebchester 1.0m/1.7km  
Eden - Main Coal Drift Leadgate 3.6m/5.8km  
Eden Colliery Leadgate 3.1m/5.1km 1844 18 July 1980
Edgewell Colliery Near Prudhoe 3.7m/6.0km  
Elliot Pit Wylam 4.7m/7.6km  
Elm Park Drift Medomsley 2.3m/3.7km 1836 
Eltringham Colliery Prudhoe 4.3m/6.9km  
Emma Colliery Ryton 4.8m/7.8km 1845 19 Apr 1968
Endeavour Pit Wylam 4.7m/7.6km  
Esther Pit Tanfield 3.1m/5.0km  
Fallow Pit  2.8m/4.5km bef. 1857 
Fell Coking Plant Consett 4.4m/7.1km Mar 1924 
Fell Drift Prudhoe 2.6m/4.2km  07 Nov 1958
First Pit Winlaton 3.8m/6.2km 1801 
Five-Quarter Drift Chopwell 0.5m/0.9km  
Folly Quarry (Sand) Ryton, Greenside 4.4m/7.1km  
Fortune Pit Chopwell 1.6m/2.6km  
Friarside Colliery nr. Rowlands Gill 2.8m/4.5km 1865 Feb 1960
Furnace Pit Chopwell 1.6m/2.7km  
Furnace Pit Annfield Plain 4.4m/7.1km  
Garesfield Colliery Garesfield 2.5m/4.1km 1800 29 Jan 1960
Garesfield Colliery nr. Rowlands Gill 3.6m/5.9km  1854
Gin Pit Medomsley 2.2m/3.6km  
Gray Mare Hill Drift Riding Mill 3.9m/6.3km  
Greencroft Colliery Annfield Plain 4.6m/7.5km 1840 
Greenside Colliery Greenside 3.6m/5.8km  23 Jul 1966
Grey Mare Pit Whittonstall 4.4m/7.1km  
Greymare Hill Colliery  4.1m/6.6km  
Grooves Pit  2.5m/4.1km bef. 1790 
Hamsterley Colliery Hamsterley 0.3m/0.5km 1864 02 Feb 1968
Hangingstone Quarry Consett 4.3m/7.0km  
Harelaw Pit Annfield Plain 4.5m/7.3km 1839 
Hassockfield Quarry Shotley Bridge 1.9m/3.1km  
Haugh Pit Wylam 4.8m/7.7km  
Heavygate Pit Chopwell 1.6m/2.7km  
Hedge Pit Wylam 4.7m/7.6km  
Hedley Colliery [NBL]  3.0m/4.8km  
Hedley Park Colliery nr. Prudhoe 2.8m/4.5km  26 May 1951
High Marley Hill Drift Byermoor 4.9m/7.9km 1948 29 Jun 1963
Highfield Drift Whittonstall 2.8m/4.6km  
Highfield East Drift Whittonstall 2.8m/4.6km  
Hive Pit Pontop 3.1m/5.1km  
Hobson Pit Burnopfield 3.8m/6.1km 1742 09 Aug 1968
Hookergate Drift Victoria Garesfield 2.1m/3.5km  
Hown's Quarry Rowley 5.0m/8.0km  
Hunter Pit Medomsley 1.3m/2.1km 1889 21 Nov 1964
Hutton Drift Chopwell 1.2m/2.0km  
Hutton Pit Annfield Plain 4.5m/7.3km  
Hutton Seam Drift  2.2m/3.6km  
Isabella Pit Medomsley 2.0m/3.2km 1898 06 Oct 1972
Iveston Colliery Iveston 4.0m/6.5km 1839 1892
James Pit Prudhoe 4.3m/7.0km  
John Pit Chopwell 1.9m/3.1km  
John Pit West Wylam 4.3m/7.0km  
John Shaft  1.0m/1.7km  
Kepier Pit Crawcrook 4.6m/7.4km  
Kiln Pit Hill Colliery Riding Mill 4.6m/7.5km  
King Pit Chopwell 1.1m/1.9km  25 Nov 1966
Kyo Wood Pit  2.9m/4.7km bef. 1790 
Latterday Saint Pit Consett 4.0m/6.4km  
Law Pit Lanchester 3.5m/5.7km 1800 
Lee Pit Chopwell 1.9m/3.1km  
Lilley Brickworks Rowlands Gill 3.7m/6.0km  
Lilley Drift Rowlands Gill 3.7m/6.0km 1877 06 Jan 1957
Lily Colliery Dipton 3.5m/5.6km  
Lintz Colliery nr. Burnopfield 2.8m/4.6km 1855 Mar 1929
Lizzie Pit Annfield Plain 4.5m/7.3km  1927
Loud Pit Pontop 4.0m/6.5km  
Low Hutton Drift Pontop 2.6m/4.3km  
Main Coal Drift nr. Dipton 2.6m/4.3km  Jul 1980
Main Drift Ebchester 0.8m/1.3km  
Margaret Pit Tanfield Lea 4.9m/7.9km 1903 25 Aug 1962
Margery Pit Wylam 4.7m/7.6km  
Maria Pit Chopwell 1.1m/1.9km  25 Nov 1966
Mary Pit Blaydon Burn 4.6m/7.4km 1850s 28 Mar 1953
Mary Pit nr. Dipton 2.6m/4.3km 1867 Jul 1980
Medomsley Colliery Medomsley 1.9m/3.1km 1839 06 Oct 1972
Medomsley Cross Roads Colliery Medomsley 1.7m/2.8km  
Merryshields Quarry Corbridge 4.2m/6.8km  
Mickley Bank Colliery nr. Prudhoe 3.4m/5.5km  
Mickley Colliery Stocksfield 4.3m/6.9km  
Mickley Grange Colliery Stocksfield 3.6m/5.8km  09 Feb 1932
Milkwellburn Colliery Chopwell 0.2m/0.4km  
Moor Pit Pontop 4.0m/6.5km  
Mosspool Pit Kiln Pit Hill 4.1m/6.7km  
Mount Pit Tantobie 3.7m/6.0km  Oct 1948
Mount Pleasant Colliery Blackhill 3.2m/5.2km bef. 1866 Aug 1910
Mountsett Quarry Tantobie 3.4m/5.5km  
Nanny Pit Chopwell 1.7m/2.8km  
North Lintz Colliery nr. Rowlands Gill 2.8m/4.5km 1865 Feb 1960
North Pit Pontop 3.3m/5.3km  
Peggy Pit Wylam 4.8m/7.7km  
Pennyhill Pit Chopwell 2.3m/3.8km 1802 1940
Phoenix Drift nr. Greenside 4.0m/6.5km  Aug 1964
Pike Pit Pontop 3.1m/5.0km  
Ploughsett Opencast Lofthouse 3.6m/5.8km  
Pontop Colliery Annfield Plain 4.4m/7.1km  
Pontop Hall Colliery nr. Dipton 3.0m/4.8km 1861 Jul 1980
Pontop Pea Pit Dipton 3.7m/6.0km  
Pontop Pike Colliery Ditpon 2.7m/4.4km  1938
Primrose Pit Wylam 4.7m/7.6km  
Prosperous Pit Collierly 3.6m/5.9km  
Prosperous Pit Wylam 4.7m/7.6km  
Prudhoe Colliery Prudhoe 4.6m/7.4km  
Prudhoe Main Colliery West Wylam 4.3m/7.0km  
Rickless Travelling Drift Blaydon 3.0m/4.9km  
Ringing Pit Ebchester 2.1m/3.5km  
Ruler 'M' Drift Garesfield 2.3m/3.8km  
Saints Pit Delves, nr. Consett 4.0m/6.4km 1847 Sep 1913
Shield Row Coronation Drift Sacriston 2.0m/3.3km  
Snipes Dene Pit Rowlands Gill 4.6m/7.4km  
South Derwent Colliery Annfield Plain 4.6m/7.4km  
South Garesfield Colliery nr. Rowlands Gill 2.8m/4.5km 1865 Feb 1960
South Medomsley Colliery nr. Dipton 3.0m/4.8km 1861 Jul 1980
South Pontop Colliery Annfield Plain 4.5m/7.3km  22 Apr 1927
Speculation Drift Blaydon 2.1m/3.4km  
Spring Pits Pontop 2.8m/4.5km  
Stanley Burn Drift Prudhoe 3.6m/5.9km 1950 Feb 1965
Staple Pit Ditpon 4.3m/6.9km 1821 1938
Stockerley House Pit nr. Consett 4.1m/6.6km 1839 09 Nov 1963
Straightneck Pit Hamsterley 2.7m/4.4km  
Stubble Pit Tanfield 3.8m/6.2km  
Success Pit Ditpon 2.7m/4.4km  1938
Surtees (No. 2) Pit Dipton 2.9m/4.7km  Nov 1940
Tanfield Lea Colliery Tanfield Lea 4.9m/7.9km 1829 25 Aug 1962
Tanfield Moor Colliery Tantobie 3.8m/6.2km 1768 Oct 1948
Taylor Pit Chopwell 1.1m/1.9km 1798 25 Nov 1966
Three Quarter Seam Drift Medomsley 2.3m/3.7km  
Three-Quarter Drift Chopwell 0.3m/0.6km  
Tilley Drift Garesfield 2.7m/4.4km  
Tilley Pit  2.5m/4.1km  
Tin Mill Colliery Blackhill 3.3m/5.4km bef. 1866 Aug 1910
Tongue Burns Drift Blackhall Mill 0.5m/0.9km  
Towneley Colliery Ryton 4.8m/7.8km 1843 19 Apr 1968
Towneley Drift Garesfield 2.5m/4.1km  
Towneley Drift nr. Rowlands Gill 2.9m/4.7km  
Towneley Emma Colliery Ryton 4.8m/7.8km 1843 19 Apr 1968
Townley Main Colliery Ryton 4.8m/7.8km 1843 19 Apr 1968
Unthank Colliery Riding Mill 4.3m/7.0km  
Victoria Drift Blaydon 4.8m/7.8km  
Victoria Garesfield Colliery Victoria Garesfield 2.1m/3.5km 1870 13 Jul 1962
Victory Pit Consett 4.0m/6.4km  09 Nov 1963
Victory Pit Delves, nr. Consett 4.0m/6.4km 1847 Sep 1913
Water Level Drift East Castle 3.9m/6.3km  
Water Level Drift nr. Rowlands Gill 2.8m/4.5km  
West Drift Chopwell 1.5m/2.4km 1960 
West Ellimore Colliery Delves 4.0m/6.4km  
West Lintz Drift nr. Tantobie 2.9m/4.7km 1874 Mar 1929
West Pit House Shaft  2.5m/4.0km  
West Pontop Colliery Ditpon 2.7m/4.4km  1938
West Quarry Ebchester 0.8m/1.3km  
West Wylam Brickworks West Wylam 4.3m/7.0km  
West Wylam Colliery West Wylam 4.3m/7.0km  1961
Westwood Colliery Ebchester 0.1m/0.2km  1941
Whinny Hill Quarry Consett 4.7m/7.6km  
Whittonstall Colliery  2.8m/4.6km  
Whittonstall Drift Whittonstall 1.5m/2.5km 1907 25 Nov 1966
William Pit Medomsley 1.4m/2.3km 1856 21 Nov 1964
Willie Pit Annfield Plain 4.5m/7.2km  
Willie Pit Tantobie 3.8m/6.2km 1762 Oct 1948
Wind Pit Tanfield Lea 4.8m/7.8km  25 Aug 1962
Windsor (North) Pit Ditpon 2.7m/4.4km  1938
Wood Head Quarry Hamsterley 1.5m/2.4km  
Woodside Common Quarry Crook Hall, nr. Consett 4.6m/7.5km  
Wylam Colliery Wylam 4.7m/7.6km  
Yew Tree Drift nr. Rowlands Gill 2.8m/4.5km  

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