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Longwitton Colliery


Longwitton Colliery was located to the north-west of Longwitton, near Hill Top. In the 1880's the colliery was reccorded as being run by Longwitton & Greenleighton Coal & Lime Co. Ltd.[1] The company, established c1874, was owned by Sir W.C. Trevelyan and subsequently by Sir Charles Trevelyan (Greenleighton) and Cecil Spencer Percival (Longwitton).[2] The colliery was served by a tramway, which linked it to the railway at Longwitton Station (at Rothley Shield East).

Longwitton Longwitton Railway Station Collieries Greenleighton Quarry (1777 - 1982)
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Papers of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Forster Collection NRO 3410/For/1
- ".....NRO 3410/For/2/37-39 are 3 Volumes of original and copy letters, papers and plans re Longwitton Colliery and Greenleighton Quarry and Lime Works, owned by Sir W.C. Trevelyan and subsequently by …
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Long Witton Colliery
- "This probable 19th century colliery was shown as disused on the third edition Ordnance Survey map of 1921. There were colliery buildings and miners' cottages and, to the north and …
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Longwitton Railway Station
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Longwitton Railway Station
- Overview About Longwitton Station   Longwitton station was a weather board and corrugated iron built railway station in Northumberland on the Rothbury Branch. Originally known as Rothley and built as …

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