The Durham Coalfield is a coalfield in north-east England.[1] It is continuous with the Northumberland Coalfield to its north. It extends from Bishop Auckland in the south to the boundary with the county of Northumberland along the River Tyne in the north, beyond which is the Northumberland Coalfield.[2]
The two contiguous coalfield areas were often referred to as the Durham and Northumberland Coalfield(s) or as the Great Northern Coalfield.[3]
^The Durham Coalfield, Coalmining History Research Centre, archived from the original on 19 July 2011, retrieved 5 December 2010
^British Geological Survey 2007 Bedrock geology: UK North 1:625,000 scale geological map, BGS, Keyworth, Notts
^"The Great Northern Coalfield: Mining Collections at Beamish Museum - Northumbria University, Newcastle UK". Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
The DurhamCoalfield is a coalfield in north-east England. It is continuous with the Northumberland Coalfield to its north. It extends from Bishop Auckland...
and DurhamCoalfield is a coalfield in North East England, otherwise known as the Durham and Northumberland Coalfield or the Great Northern Coalfield. It...
The Northumberland Coalfield is a coalfield in north-east England. It is continuous with the DurhamCoalfield to its south. It extends from Shilbottle...
Scotland. County Durham became heavily industrialised in the nineteenth century, when many collieries opened on the Durhamcoalfield. The Stockton and...
Northern English dialects spoken in rural areas of the Northumberland and DurhamCoalfield in England. The separating dialectal development from other Northumbrian...
labour unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durhamcoalfield. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9068-4. OCLC 949908606...
of 21 miles (34 kilometres) north through the DurhamCoalfield and Washington, prior to joining the Durham Coast Line at Pelaw Junction. The Leamside Line...
small village in County Durham, England. It is situated to the east of Bishop Auckland, near Coundon. Located in the DurhamCoalfield, most of the former...
at the pit, the mine was the last to remain operating in the County DurhamCoalfield. The last shift left the pit on 10 December 1993, ending over 80 years...
of the Durhamcoalfield, has a coal-mining heritage that dates back centuries. At its peak in 1923, 170,000 miners were employed in County Durham alone...
Yorkshire and County Durham Pitmatic or 'Yakka', a group of dialects spoken in mining towns of Northumberland and DurhamCoalfield Berwick dialect, spoken...
colliery in the area closed in 1968. Today, with the decline of the Durhamcoalfield, manufacturing has been left as the largest sector of employment in...
the most important in County Durham. The mine opened in 1835 and was the last to remain operating in the DurhamCoalfield, with the last shift leaving...
have been a favourite sea-bathing spot for the Bishop of Durham. Located on the Durhamcoalfield, Ryhope followed the path of many other villages in the...
Revolution", A History of County Durham, 1990, chapters 10 and 11, pp 56 & 61; Robert Lee, The Church of England and the DurhamCoalfield, 1810-1926, 2007; Lee,...
known recorded use of ponies underground in Great Britain was in the Durhamcoalfield in 1750. Following the drowning deaths of 26 children when the Huskar...
originally performed in the mining villages of the Northumberland and Durhamcoalfield in North-East England. The dances derive from a well-defined geographical...
Durham, danced with long, rigid metal or wooden swords for, usually, six or eight dancers. Rapper sword from the Northumberland and DurhamCoalfield,...
many different parts of the country. Britain's coalfields are associated with Northumberland and Durham, North and South Wales, Yorkshire, the Scottish...
Cory, p. 77 note 1 Lee, Robert (2007). The Church of England and the DurhamCoalfield, 1810-1926: Clergymen, Capitalists and Colliers. Boydell & Brewer Ltd...
series of small coalfields along the south side of the Tyne Valley and which are intermediate between the Northumberland and DurhamCoalfields to the east...
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