Bishop's Close Colliery

Research Notes

• Ref: NCB 14/131 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 1856 - (1) (1) Viscount Barrington and another ; (2) Joshua Bates and Thomas Baring. Copy Assignment of coal mines at Bishops Closes and Ricknall Grange
• Ref: NCB 14/140 — January 1869 - (1) R. E. D. Shafto ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Agreement for working the Bishops Close Colliery
• Ref: NCB 14/142 — 16 April 1877 - (1) R. D. Shafto ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Draft and copy of agreement for working coal in the Hutton Seam and other seams under Bishops Close, with plan
• Ref: NCB 14/141 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report on the Bishops Close Colliery, August 1877
• Ref: NCB 14/143 — 26 January 1880 - (1) R. D. Shafto ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Agreement regarding fire clay at Bishops Close Colliery
• Ref: NCB 14/144 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Estimates of output of Bishops Close Colliery and Tudhoe Colliery, 1886
• Ref: NCB 14/145 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence as to Bishops Close royalty, 1887-1895
• Ref: NCB 13/317 — Correspondence between Weardale Iron and Coal Company and North Eastern Railway Company concerning notice of intention to work coal in Hutton Seam, Bishop's Close Colliery, under the Clarence Railway, parish of Whitworth, plan included, 22 October 1891 - 22 November 1892
• Ref: NCB 14/153 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report on the Bishops Close Colliery with plans of the Hutton or Harvey Seam and the Low Main Seam, 14 September 1933
• Ref: NCB 14/154 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Plan of the Hutton Seam, Bishops Close Colliery with areas to be supported, not dated Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile