Pit village information

Look up pit village in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A pit village, colliery village or mining village is a settlement built by colliery owners to...

Derbyshire, County Durham, South Wales and Northumberland are known as pit villages. These (such as Murton, County Durham) grew from hamlets when the sinking...

chip shop (opened 2011) band hall (opened 2013) and pit pony stables (built 2013/14) in the Pit Village, plus a bakery (opened 2013) and chemist and photographers...

land belonging to Astley Hall and sank a pit, Astley Colliery, which subsequently became the site of Gin Pit Colliery. It was near other old shafts on...

Warmfield parish, but is now managed by its own parish council. A pit or model village of more than 150 back-to-back houses was built at New Sharlston from...

100–200. It is about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Brancepeth village. It was the pit village for New Brancepeth Colliery. New Brancepeth Primary School...

Auckland, near Coundon. Located in the Durham Coalfield, most of the former pit village of Leasingthorne was demolished in 1969 after the colliery closed, as...

Pei (Chinese: 芙蓉泌) aka. Fu Yung Pit (芙蓉別) is a village in Sha Tin District, Hong Kong. Fu Yung Pit is a recognized village under the New Territories Small...

Ushaw Moor is an old pit village in County Durham, in England, on the north side of the River Deerness. It is situated to the west of Durham, a short...

Man camp – temporary housing for resource extraction Mission (station) Pit village Sherman, James E; Barbara H. Sherman (1969). Ghost Towns of Arizona....

Durham is 16 km (9.9 mi) away and offers quite a contrast to the former pit villages in the area of Annfield Plain. "Anfield", as the name was originally...

Bolshoy Pit are navigable during the spring flood between May an June up to the village Bryanka, 184 km (114 mi) from the river's mouth. The Bolshoy Pit has...

Creswell Model Village is an arts and crafts style model village in the village of Creswell, Derbyshire, England. The pit village was built in 1895 by...

novel, Netherwood, was published by Little, Brown. Set in a Yorkshire pit village around the turn of the 20th century, and based in part on Sanderson's...

Langley Moor is an old pit village in County Durham, England. It is located approximately 2 miles south-west of Durham City. Langley Moor is within the...

dance unique to Northumberland and County Durham. It emerged from the pit villages of Tyneside and Wearside, where miners first performed the tradition...

Zhangzhou City, Nanjing County, Shuyang Township, Tian Luo Keng Village (literally "Snail Pit" Village) in southern China, about four hours drive by motor coach...

Longframlington is a former pit village and on the site of the pit now stands Fram Park, a log cabin holiday park. The village was previously the site of...

Ludworth Tower was a manor house and later a pele tower in the pit village of Ludworth, County Durham. Only ruins survive today. Ludworth Tower was built...

the small village of Bothal, also on the River Wansbeck. South of the town is the small village of North Seaton which once had its own pit. North of the...

The La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt...

The Messel pit (German: Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about 35 km (22 mi) southeast...

Gin Pit was a coal mine operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the 1840s in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester then in the historic county of Lancashire...