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Bilton Banks is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.3847°, -1.6708°.

Mines & mining heritage · North East England

Bilton Banks

Bilton Banks in England North East, United Kingdom.

There is a burn there somewhere - geograph.org.uk - 3023980 — Russel Wills — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Bilton Banks is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Bilton Banks was a village in Northumberland adjacent to the coal mines of Shilbottle and Longdyke. It was home to many miners’ families from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century, when the mines were finally closed and the houses condemned and demolished. Today there is nothing to show that, for almost three quarters of a century, a close-knit community of dozens of working families lived and worked there but still, hidden beneath a peaceful agricultural scene, lie the tunnels and workings in which they laboured to bring up the coal to feed British industry.

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Coal mining has been associated with this area of north east England for many hundreds of years. It is believed that monks from nearby Hulne Priory were mining coal in the area from around the 12th century and written survey records, held by the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, exist from the 1500s of transactions involving the transfer of ownership of coal mines and mining rights. There are three main seams of coal in the Shilbottle area of Northumberland, the Townsend, Cannel and Shilbottle and these have been mined in various ways for many hundreds of years at various locations, resulting in multiple spoil heaps becoming part of the countryside over time. Nineteenth century Shilbottle…

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