Blackburn Fell Drift
Staple Pit
Stagshaw Bank
Louisa Pit
Whickham Grand Lease Colliery
Northbanks Colliery
Causey
Tanfield
Moor
Bucksnook
Beckley
Byermoor
Fawdon Field
Pontop
Hollinside
Riding Field
Ravensworth
Axwell
West
Gibside
(East Gibside)
Winlaton
Stella
Kyo
Crawcrook
Lintz
Collierley
Bushblades
Southmoor
Waggonways
1621-1659
1660-1698
1699-1723
1724-1800
Collieries
OS 6″ 1862-4
OS 6″ 1882-1913
OS 25″ 1898
OS 6″ 1950s revision
Other
Unnamed shafts/collieries on OS maps
Mineral Railways
Bowes Railway
Chopwell & Garesfield Railway
Derwent Valley Railway
Crawcrook Greenside Stargate Railway
Blaydon Burn Railway
Stanhope South Shields and links
Tanfield Railway
Carlisle Newcastle
Redheugh Branch
East Coast Line
Derwenthaugh Branch
Pelaw Main
Scotswood Newburn Wylam Branch
Border Counties Railway
Durham Lanchester Consett
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Friar’s Goose c1746
Stella Grand
Lease Way
Built around 1635
Winlaton Way
Built around 1633
Bensham Windmills
Hills Way
Built no later than 1647
Whickham Grand Lease
1621 – c1710
Crawcrook Way
1663?
Chopwell Way
1661 -<1728
Hollinside Way
1692-1710
Riding Field Way
1684?-c1745
Team Way
1670
Bensham Way
1670- 1800
Felling Way
c1676
Gateshead Head Way
>1659
East Winlaton
East Winlaton Way
c1703
Northbanks
Northbanks
1699-1723
Western Way I
1712-1732
Western Way II
Western Way II
1721-1726
Northbanks Burdon Moor
Northbanks Burdon Moor
1717
Tanfield 1724
Blaydon Shibdon
1749
Garesfield 1801
Lands 1728
Risemoor 1737
Western Way III
1728- c 1800
Birtley Fell 1725
Heworth c1759
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