Co. Durham A-Z______C=Cornsay Colliery Traditional Cache
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Co. Durham A-Z______C=Cornsay Colliery
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Cornsay Colliery is on the edge of the coalfield and its nearest neighbours are old mining villages like Quebec and Esh Winning. Another nearby village called Wilks Hill between Quebec and Cornsay Colliery was important for quarrying.
Cornsay Colliery is more typical of a mining village. As with neighbouring Quebec, only houses in the main street survive. This is Commercial Street or the B6301. Its most prominent building is the Royal Oak pub, built with the rest of the village on empty fields and woodland in the nineteenth century. Most streets in the village have now gone and the majority stood in the fields across the road from the pub.
Cornsay Colliery was opened in 1868 by Ferens and Love who employed 700 men at the colliery and its associated drift mines.
Cornsay colliery's actual colliery stood at the southern end of the village on the western side of the main road. Of almost equal importance to the production of coal was the extraction of fire clay that seems to have been particularly abundant at this locality. The brick works operated for some time after the closure of the colliery in 1953.
Park on the tarmac in front of the gates or over the road in the street, go over the low black gate and follow the path, along towards the woods on the right, turn right and follow the woodland trail up the hill.
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