Weardale Iron and Coal Co., Ltd.

Research Notes

• Ref: NCB 14/84 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Abstract of NCB 14/83, [1846]
• Ref: NCB 14/82 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 20 February 1846 - (1) Charles Attwood ; (2) Emerson Muschamp. Copy of covenant for the sale and purchase of coal from Viscount Boyne's Thornley Pit House Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/83 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 2 November 1846 - (1) George Hutton Wilkinson ; (2) Charles Attwood. Copy Lease of freestone, firestone, whinstone and slates in Stanhope Parish north of the River Wear and at Tow Law
• Ref: NCB 14/128 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report of William Burrell on the Middridge, Ricknall Grange and Heighington Estates, 14 July 1847
• Ref: NCB 14/105 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Abstract of NCB 14/102, [c.1853]
• Ref: NCB 14/103 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 21 October 1853 - (1) Marmaduke C. Salvin ; (2) Joshua Bates and Thomas Baring. Copy Lease of coalmines within the township of Tudhoe
• Ref: NCB 14/104 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 21 October 1853 - (1) Marmaduke C. Salvin ; (2) Joshua Bates and Thomas Baring. Draft Lease of a wayleave over the Tudhoe Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/129 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 2 February 1855 - (1) The Bishop of Durham ; (2) Viscount Barrihgton and another. Copy lease of mines and quarries under Bishops Closes in the township of Whitworth and Manor of Bondgate in Auckland, with plan
• Ref: NCB 14/130 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 2 February 1855 - (1) The Bishop of Durham ; (2) Viscount Barrington and another. Copy lease of mines and quarries at Ricknall Grange in the manor of Bondgate in Auckland
• Ref: NCB 14/65 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 1856 - (1) Henry Stobart and others ; (2) Joshua Bates and Thomas Baring. Draft lease of coal at Constantine in the township of Hunwick, with miscellaneous papers in folded
• 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 14/7 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 21 October 1856 - (1) Charles Attwood ; (2) Baring Bros. ; (3) Joshua Bates and Thomas Baring. Duplicate declaration of trust as to mines assigned to (3) by Viscount Barrington
• Ref: NCB 14/85 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 21 September 1857 - (1) George Hutton Wilkinson ; (2) Charles Attwood. Copy Agreement for wayleave over the White Kirkley Estate, Bishopley [Wagon] Way
• Ref: NCB 9/1 — Weardale Iron and Coal Co. - Discount and interest accounts, 1858-1863
• Ref: NCB 14/168 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Newby and another vs. Attwood, The Ecclesiastical Commissioners and others, in Chancery. The Answer of the defendants Attwood, Bates, Baring, Baring and Young, 26 December 1860
• Ref: NCB 14/66 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 21 January 1861 - (1) H. S. Stobart for the North Bitchburn Coal Co. ; (2) Charles Attwood. Agreement for the lease of 200 acres of 5/4 seam coal at Constantine
• Ref: NCB 14/87 — 2 March 1868 - (1) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. ; (2) Thomas Snowdon. Copy agreement to let 15 coke ovens at Old Thornley Colliery
• Ref: NCB 14/88 — 2 March 1863 - (1) Thomas Snowdon ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Agreernent for the supply of the produce of 15 coke ovens
• Ref: NCB 14/176 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence received by Mr. Attwood relating to land of Mr. Beaumont in the Rookhope area, forwarding maps and extract from law suit involving these properties, 1864-1866
• Ref: NCB 14/67 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Memorandum of special clauses in Stobart's draft lease of the Constantine Mine, 9 March 1864
• Ref: NCB 14/14 — 20 February 1865 and 10 October 1866 - (1) G. Salvin and M. C. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Draft agreements to lease 550 acres of coal etc. under the Croxdale and Sunderland Bridge properties in the townships of Hett and Sunderland Bridge, with memorandum of terms of this lease and one of Black Horse Farm, Tudhoe
• Ref: NCB 14/169 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - William Proud v Joshua Bates and others. Minutes of Decree and Transcript of Judgment, 5 May 1865
• Ref: NCB 27Interim List/63 — Agreements between Weardale Iron and Coal Company, Ltd., and other parties, 9 November 1865 - 7 February 1893
• Ref: NCB 14/155 — 23 November 1865 - (1) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. ; (2) Ralph Manners, Limeburner. Agreement to sublet limestone quarries in the Manor of Bondgate in Auckland
• Ref: NCB 14/68 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 20 August 1866 - (1) Henry Stobart, John Mounsey and John Castell Hopkins ; (2) Charles Attwood ; (3) Thomas Baring M.P. Engrossment copy of the lease of the 5/4 Seam of coal at Constantine
• Ref: NCB 14/15 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 10 November 1866 - (1) Viscount Boyne and another ; (2) Isaac Lowthian Bell and others. Copy lease for 63 years of coal etc. under 2200 acres of the Brancepeth Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/106 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report to Mr. Elliot on the safe working of Tudhoe Colliery, 16 February 1867
• Ref: NCB 14/161 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Accounts relating to the use of the Bollihope Burn Railway by Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd., 13 May 1867 - 30 January 1869
• Ref: NCB 14/69 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 14 May 1867 - (1) Thomas Baring M.P. ; (2) George Pyman and others. Copy of sublease of the five quarter seam of coal at Constantine, Co. Durham
• Ref: NCB 14/159 — 22 June 1867 - (1) The Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. ; (2) Messrs. Bolckow Vaughan & Co. Ltd. Counterpart agreement as to the use of part of the Bollihope Branch Railway
• Ref: NCB 14 86 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 1 July 1867 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Messrs. Rutter and Whitfield. Copy agreement to lease coal etc. under the commons in the parish of Wolsingham, north of the River Wear
• Ref: NCB 14/160 — Notice from Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd. to the Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. of abandonment of wayleave over the Bollihope Railway, 20 August 1868
• 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 14/179 — Correspondence between The Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd. and the Grande Societe des Chemins de Fer Russes of St. Petersburg regarding guarantee to replace rails supplied, 1871-1880
• Ref: NCB 14/9 — Copy of arrangement between the Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. and Joseph Pease and Partners re sublease of Hedley Hill, 1872 and 1877
• Ref: NCB 14/70 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 8 April 1872 - (1) Richard Blanshard ; (2) Thomas Baring. Draft sub-lease of coal etc. in the township of Middleham, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/90 — 31 December 1872 - (1) William Rutter and another ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy lease of coal and fireclay under lands at Tow Law
• Ref: NCB 14/17 — 29 October 1873 - (1) M. C. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy agreement for the lease of coal etc. under the Burn Hall and Farewell Hall Estates
• Ref: NCB 14/92 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Bundle of correspondence regarding coal to be left to support the railway at Tow Law, 1874-1886
• Ref: NCB 14/164 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Licences for use of Casson's Patent Puddling Furnaces by the Weardale company, 1874-1880
• Ref: NCB 14/162 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Notice of Surrender of Mines at Guisborough, Yorks. leased by Bates and Baring to Spark and Bainbridge, 20 November 1874
• Ref: NCB 14/163 — Letter from The Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. to Charles Attwood regarding the South Belmont Mine, 23 November 1874
• Ref: NCB 14/91 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - File of correspondence regarding coal at Dans Castle, Tow Law, 1875-1885
• Ref: NCB 14/108 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence regarding Tudhoe and Tudhoe Grange Collieries, the quantity of coal wrought, boundaries etc., 1875-1882
• Ref: NCB 14/170 — Copy of order of reference in the matter of Stobbs v. The Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., regarding damage, not dated [c.1875;]
• Ref: NCB 14/18 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Copy of report regarding the Sunderland Bridge pumping station, 28 January 1876
• Ref: NCB 14/19 — 17 March 1876 - (1) Sir John Lawson Bart and H. C. Silvertop ; (2) H. T. T. Salvin ; (3) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Draft lease of coal etc. in the Sunderland Bridge Estate
• Ref: NCB 13/304 — Papers concerning lease of Sunderland Bridge Royalty by H. T. T. Salvin, Croxdale Wood House, to Weardale Iron and Coal Company, 7 July 1876 - 11 January 1878
• 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 14/107 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Reports of J. W. Laverick on Tudhoe Grange Colliery, 20 August 1877
• Ref: NCB 14/89 — Copy of T. E. Forster's award of compensation for damage to land at Thornley in the matter of Rev. William Darnell V. Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd., 6 July 1878
• Ref: NCB 14/94 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Mr. Hedley's report on the Tudhoe Blast Furnaces, 27 December 1878
• Ref: NCB 13/312 — Brief concerning arbitration between Weardale Iron and Coal Company and North Eastern Railway Company concerning Croxdale Viaduct, 1879-1890
• Ref: NCB 14/20 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Miscellaneous notes, minutes of meetings, correspondence, plans and heads of agreement re Burn Hall lease, 1879-1888
• Ref: NCB 13/311 — Correspondence between William Armstrong & Sons, Chester-le-Street, North Eastern Railway Company and Weardale Iron and Coal Company, concerning the working of coal under Croxdale Viaduct, plans included, 25 March 1879 - 14 July 1891
• Ref: NCB 14/22 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 11 October 1879 - (1) Viscount Boyne ; (2) Bell Bros. Ltd. and others. Agreement for an extension of time for working up short workings and licence for assignment of a mineral lease relating to parts of the Brancepeth Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/21 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - File of correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the Sunderland Bridge Lease, 1880-1887
• Ref: NCB 14/25 — Bill of Costs for the Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. relating to the surrender and redemise of Sunderland Bridge Coal Royalty, 1880-1881
• Ref: NCB 14/28 — 1880 - (1) Viscount Boyne ; (2) Bell Bros. Ltd. ; (3) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy of agreement regarding subletting coal near Sunderland Bridge, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/71 — 1880 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Draft lease of brick clay under lands at Bishop Middleham
• Ref: NCB 14/109 — Case for counsel's opinion regarding Tudhoe Coal (Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. and Salvin), 1880
• Ref: NCB 14/113 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Letters from B. J. F. and H. T. T. Salvin regarding drifts through the Tudhoe Barrier into the Whitworth Royalty, 1880-1890
• 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 14/23 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 2 November 1880 - (1) Sir John Lawson Bart and H. C. Silvertop ; (2) H. T. T. Salvin ; (3) Joseph Love and Robinson Ferens. Copy agreement for the lease of coal mines under part of the Croxdale Estate for 28 years with rnaps and related correspondence
• Ref: NCB 14/24 — 10 December 1880 - (1) M. C. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Agreement regarding the Tudhoe and Burn Hall Royalties, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/12 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence, accounts and agreements relating to the Hedley Hope coal royalty and the interests of Messrs. Samuelson and Mr. Pickering, 1881-1888
• Ref: NCB 14/26 — 1881 - (1) Sir John Lawson Bart and H. C. Silvertop ; (2) H. T. T. Salvin ; (3) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Draft lease of Sunderland Bridge Free Stone Quarry with terms of letting and accounts
• Ref: NCB 14/31 — 1881 - (1) Sir John Lawson Bart and H. C. Silvertop ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy agreement for the right to dig clay and discharge water into the Nickey Nack Back
• Ref: NCB 14/27 — 1 January 1881 - (1) Bell Bros. Ltd. ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Draft agreement for a sublease of minerals under part of the Brancepeth Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/10 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence from Pease and Partners relating to an extension of time for working Hedley Hill, April 1881
• Ref: NCB 14/29 — 2 June 1881 - (1) Viscount Boyne ; (2) Bell Bros. Ltd. ; (3) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Agreement regarding the surrender and re-letting of coal near Sunderland Bridge, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/30 — 2 June 1881 - (1) Bell Bros Ltd. ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy agreement to surrender lease of a part
• Ref: NCB 14/32 — 20 September 1881 - (1) Sir John Lawson Bart and H. C. Silvertop ; (2) H. T. T. Salvin ; (3) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy agreement for the lease of coal etc. within the Burn Hall, Sunderland Bridge and part of the Croxdale Estates
• Ref: NCB 14/33 — 24 November 1881 - (1) Viscount Boyne ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy of draft lease of coal etc. under 105 acres of the Brancepeth Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/172 — Mr. Dunn's opinion on damaged land in the matter of Sir W. Eden Bart and the Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd., 2 June 1882
• Ref: NCB 14/95 — 30 June 1882 - (1) Thomas Shaw ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Agreement as to damage from smoke etc.
• Ref: NCB 14/171 — Copy of The Award of William Henry Wood in The Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd. v. Viscount Boyne, 19 August 1882
• Ref: NCB 14/102 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and Licences fran Jameson's Patent Coking Co. and Cowan's Patent Coking Co. to use 180 ovens at Tudhoe, 1883
• Ref: NCB 14/132 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Reports and analysis of the Middridge Colliery, 1883-1897
• Ref: NCB 14/147 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondenoe relating to the Whitworth royalty including proposals for a lease and estimates of coal reserves, 1883-1890
• Ref: NCB 14/34 — 30 June 1883 - (1) M. C. Salvin and B. J. F. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy lease of coal etc. below the Hutton Seam under the Burn Hall and Farewell Hall Estates
• Ref: NCB 14/110 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Letters from Messrs. Boyd regarding the Tudhoe and Croxdale Royalties, July 1883
• Ref: NCB 13/313 — Correspondence between William Armstrong, Pelaw House, Chester-le-Street, and J. R. Crone, Tudhoe, for Weardale Iron and Coal Company, concerning arbitration with North Eastern Railway Company over Croxdale Viaduct, 8 March 1884 - 15 June 1889
• Ref: NCB 14/111 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Letter from Messrs. Boyd regarding the rent for 5 acres of coal at Thinford, 11 August 1884
• Ref: NCB 14/72 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Letter regarding Bishop Middleham coal royalty, 8 October 1884
• Ref: NCB 14/13 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence, valuations and abstract of a lease relating to Clavering's Stow House Farm in the parish of Cornsay, 1885-1887
• Ref: NCB 14/93 — 1885-1886 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) William Rutter and Thompson Whitfield ; (3) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. ; (4) North Eastern Railway Co. Copy agreement for leaving coals to support the railway at Dan's Castle, Tow Law, with plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/174 — Copy of correspondence and Mr. E. G. Marshall's Bill of Costs in Bewick and others vs. The Weardale Iron and Coal Company, 1885-1888
• Ref: NCB 14/73 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and proposed terms of letting Bishop Middleham Royalty, February 1885
• Ref: NCB 14/165 — Letter from the Weardale Iron and Coal Co. to Messrs. Boyd seeking to work coal in Busty Seam under York Hill Farm with plan, 17 December 1885
• Ref: NCB 14/144 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Estimates of output of Bishops Close Colliery and Tudhoe Colliery, 1886
• Ref: NCB 13/305 — 31 December 1886 - (1) Anthony Wilkinson of 52 Old Elvet, Durham ; (2) Right Reverend George Howard, Lord Bishop of Truro ; (3) Charles Edward Prime of Askidge Wood, Wokingham, Berkshire ; (4) Mary Widdrington of Hauxley Morden, Surrey, widow ; (5) Weardale Iron and Coal Company. Copy lease by (1), (2), (3) and (4) to (5) for 42 years of coal under lands at Wingate and Wheatley Hill, with detailed provisions for working coal and rents as specified
• Ref: NCB 14/145 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence as to Bishops Close royalty, 1887-1895
• Ref: NCB 14/178 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence with the Home Office regarding Atkinson's book on Mining Accidents, 1887
• Ref: NCB 14/96 — 8 September 1887 - (1) E. A. Cowper ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Licence to build stoves to (1)'s patent with letter (1) to (2) enclosed
• Ref: NCB 14/11 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Papers regarding Pickering's claim, plans of Hedley Hill Farm, copy of grant of land on Cornsay Common by William Belasyse (1726) and other papers, 1888
• Ref: NCB 14/35 — 1888 - (1) B. J. F. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy agreement to vary provisions of NCB 14/34
• Ref: NCB 14/112 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence from E.G. Marshall and various financial calculations relating to the Tudhoe Colliery lease, 1888
• Ref: NCB 13/298 — 27 June 1888 - (1) Viscount Boyne ; (2) Weardale Iron and Coal Company. Abstract of lease for 21 years by (1) to (2) of coal, ironstone and fireclay under lands in townships of Thornley and Cornsay, parishes of Wolsingham and Lanchester, with detailed provisions for working coal and rents specified.
• Ref: NCB 14/97 — 6 July 1888 - (1) Thomas Turner ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Agreement for the use of patent ingot moulds
• Ref: NCB 9/3 — Weardale Iron and Coal Co. - Wages accounts for Black Prince and West Thornley Collieries, 1889
• Ref: NCB 14/42 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence regarding the working of barriers in the Busty Seam between the Sunderland Bridge, Tudhoe and Butcher Race Royalties, with plan, 1889-1900
• Ref: NCB 14/166 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - File of correspondence regarding encroachment by the New Shildon Coal Company, 1889
• Ref: NCB 14/175 — Correspondence and copies of draft Agreements for Reference between the Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd. and Thomas Newbitt over damage caused by mining at Coldstream Farm, 1889
• Ref: NCB 14/133 — 7 March 1889 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy Lease of coal etc. at Ricknall Grange
• Ref: NCB 14/173 — Copy of an agreement for compromise in Sir William Eden Bart v. The Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd., and The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England v. Sir William Eden Bart., 7 March 1889
• Ref: NCB 14/36 — 13 March 1889 - (1) Sir John Lawson Bart and Edgar Meynell ; (2) H. T. T. Salvin ; (3) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy lease of coal etc. under the Sunderland Bridge, Low Burn Hall and Croxdale Estates
• Ref: D/X 833/1 — Account of cottages belonging to, or rented by, The Weardale Iron and Coal Co. Ltd. at their Wheatley Hill Colliery; arranged by street and gives the names of the occupiers, job of occupiers, dates of entry and departure of each tenant from each property and other relevant remarks relating to each household, c.1890 - c.1940s
• Ref: NCB 9/2 — Weardale Iron and Coal Co. - Accounts of coal wrought at Hedley Hill and Cornsay Collieries, 1890-1909
• Ref: NCB 14/37 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - File of correspondence relating to the Burn Hall and Low Burn Hall Royalties, 1890
• Ref: NCB 14/38 — 1890 - (1) B. J. F. Salvin, Sir John Lawson Bart, Edgar Meynell and H. T. T. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy of agreement regarding coal under the turnpike adjoining the Burn Hall Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/39 — Correspondence between the North Eastern Railway Co. and Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. regarding support for Croxdale Viaduct, 1890
• Ref: NCB 14/146 — 1890 - (1) Mrs. R. C. Duncombe Shafto ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Draft agremnent to lease coal and fireclay under the Whitworth Park royalty excepting the Martin Seam
• Ref: D/X 832/21 — Letter to The Weardale Iron and Coal Company, Tudhoe Iron Works, Spennymoor from W. H. Wood, Coxhoe Hall, Coxhoe R.S.O., concerning the terms under which Colonel Webber Smith would be prepared to grant a surface wayleave at Greenhills, 17 March 1890
• Ref: NCB 14/114 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence regarding the Butcher Race and Ferry Hill royalties, 1891-1895
• Ref: NCB 14/40 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report on Croxdale Colliery, January 1891
• Ref: NCB 14/149 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and a plan regarding the Whitworth royalty, reserved coal in the Busty Seam, 25 March 1893
• Ref: NCB 14/148 — 19 June 1893 - (1) Mrs. R. C. Duncombe Shafto and others ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy of lease of coal and fire clay in the parish of Whitworth, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/115 — Proposals for a lease of coal etc. under the Tudhoe Estate (Salvin to Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd.), 11 January 1894
• Ref: NCB 14/134 — 14 November 1895 - 30 April 1896 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Draft Agreements for the lease of mines at Bishops Closes, Whitworth, with instructions to prepare same
• Ref: NCB 14/116 — 10 February 1896 - (1) B. J. F. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy Lease of coal and other minerals under the Tudhoe Estate, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/117 — 10 September 1896 - (1) B. J. F. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Agreement as to outstroke drifts, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/41 — 16 September 1897 - (1) Sir John Lawson Bart and Edgar Meynell ; (2) H. T. T. Salvin ; (3) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy Lease of coal etc. under the Croxdale Estate
• Ref: NCB 14/150 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondenoe and plans regarding alleged surface damage to the Whitworth Park Estate, 1898
• Ref: NCB 14/1 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - List of coal royalties held, 1899
• Ref: NCB 14/118 — 30 January 1899 - (1) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Copy lease of coal and fireclay under 67 acres of the Butcher Race royalty, Tudhoe
• Ref: NCB 13/318 — Papers concerning working coal by Weardale Iron and Coal Company in Brockwell Seam under township of Middridge, to east of Shildon Station, plans attached, 7 March 1900 - 23 February 1903
• Ref: NCB 9/4 — Weardale Iron and Coal Co. - Miscellaneous papers re Hedley Hill Colliery, 1901-1920
• Ref: NCB 14/43 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report on the Croxdale Colliery by Hugh Ross, 1903
• Ref: NCB 14/151 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report on the Whitworth royalty by W. R. Dakers, with related letter, 1903-1904
• Ref: NCB 14/119 — 27 February 1903 - (1) M. H. Salvin ; (2) Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. Consent to make drifts into the Whitworth royalty, plan attached
• Ref: NCB 14/120 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Mr. Kay's Report on a visit to Whittaker and Company of Accrington, Lancashire, 8 October 1903
• Ref: NCB 14/152 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and notices relating to the surrender of the Whitworth Park Colliery lease and a copy of the surrender, June 1904
• Ref: NCB 14/121 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Particulars of Fire Insurance for plant at Tudhoe, Croxdale, Middridge and Black Prince Collieries, April 1905
• Ref: NCB 14/44 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Letters regarding alterations to the Croxdale and Sunderland Bridge Lease, 1906
• Ref: NCB 14/45 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Letters from the Salvin agents granting permission to work coal in the Hutton Seam Barrier and in the Busty Seam north of Whin Dike, 1906
• Ref: NCB 14/99 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence regarding the McLellan Engineering Company's new railway siding at Tudhoe, 1907
• Ref: NCB 14/48 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Reports on the working of Croxdale Colliery with plans, 1913
• Ref: NCB 14/49 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report upon Croxdale Colliery, 29 January 1914
• Ref: NCB 14/50 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Report upon Croxdale Colliery, 4 September 1914
• Ref: NCB 14/77 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - 1915 - (1) The Carlton Iron Co. Ltd. (in liquidation) and another ; (2) The Carlton Iron Co. Ltd. (new company). Copy assignment of the sublease NCB 14/76
• Ref: NCB 14/57 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Papers regarding the surrender of an underlease of coal under parts of the Croxdale and Low Burn Hall Estates, 1918-1925
• Ref: NCB 14/136 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence with Sir A. N. L. Wood and Company and others regarding the Ricknall Grange and Middridge royalties, May - July 1920
• Ref: NCB 14/137 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Plan of Busty Seam, Middridge, December 1920. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• Ref: NCB 14/158 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Reports for Pease and Partners, profit and loss accounts, valuation of plant and plans relating to the Adelaide Colliery, 1922
• Ref: NCB 14/124 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence with Sir A. N. L. Wood and Company regarding the Butcher Race royalty, April 1922
• Ref: NCB 14/138 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence and miscellaneous papers regarding the Middridge Colliery and related royalty payments, sub-let areas etc., 1923-1928
• Ref: NCB 14/58 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence with Messrs. Forster with regard to reducing the tonnage rent for the Busty Seam of Lord Boyne's Sunderland Bridge Arm Coal, May 1925
• Ref: NCB 14/59 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence with Messrs. Forster and Major Salvin regarding the reduction in rent for the Busty Seam Low Burn Hall Royalty, May - December 1925
• Ref: NCB 14/78 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspod ence with Dorman Long and Co. Ltd. regarding permission to erect a winding engine house at Bishop Middleham and other matters, December 1927 - February 1928
• Ref: NCB 14/60 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence regarding the reduction of tonnage rent on coal from the Croxdale Brockwell Seam, 2 July - 5 September 1929
• Ref: NCB 14/63 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Notices and correspondence re working coal from the Busty Seam, Croxdale Colliery near to the L.N.E.R. mainline with plan, August 1929
• Ref: NCB 14/61 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence with Messrs. Forster and Major Salvin regarding Burn Hall Royalty, notice to terminate lease, terms of working coal in the Busty Seam etc., 4 December 1929 - 27 February 1931
• Ref: NCB 14/101 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Certificate of expediency for £3,200 to be expended on Tudhoe coke and benzol plant, 3 March 1930
• Ref: NCB 14/125 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence with Sir A. N. L. Wood and Company regarding extension of the lease of Butcher Race royalty, July 1930
• 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 14/2 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - List of royalties, leases, rents etc., March 1938
• Ref: NCB 14/167 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Correspondence regarding Notice to Quit Eden Pit Village and Tramway, April 1941
• Ref: NCB 14/3 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - List of acreages (of various royalties) not dated
• Ref: NCB 14/16 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Notes on lease NCB 14/15
• Ref: NCB 14/81 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Map of Bishop Middleham and environs composed of and parts of four 6 inch O.S. Maps, Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile
• 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
• Ref: NCB 14/156 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Plan of Hutton Seam, Adelaide Colliery (nr. Bishop Auckland), not dated. Scale: 1/2500
• Ref: NCB 14/157 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Plan of Busty Seam, Adelaide Colliery, not dated Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch.
• Ref: NCB 14/177 — Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. - Plan of Wolf Cleugh Farm and adjoining areas of Grove Rake, Boltsburn etc. shewing veins of minerals, shafts, quarries etc., not dated. Scale: approx. 1 : 10,000