East Cramlington

East Cramlington is a village in Northumberland, located at the east of Cramlington and a short distance west of Seaton Delaval on the B1326 road. There was a coal mine at East Cramlington from the 1860s or earlier[1] This was taken over by Hartley Main Collieries Ltd. and was one of a number of pits of Cramlington Colliery. The pit at East Cramlington closed in c.1939, but coal from other nearby pits belonging to Hartley Mains Collieries continued to be processed here for another 20 years, and over time there was a very large slag heap of mining waste. Today this is the site of East Cramlington Nature Reserve, a large landscaped public area with woods and a large pond. As well as residential housing there is a small industrial park at East Cramlington and the village is close to the NHS Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.