Mines & mining heritage · North East England
Lambton Collieries
Lambton Collieries in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Lambton Collieries 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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From the Wikipedia article
Lambton Collieries was a privately owned colliery and coal mining company, based in County Durham, England.
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Background
History
The name derives from Lambton Castle, the ancestral family home of the Lambton family. With coal having been extracted in the area from the 1600s, the commercial extraction of coal was developed by John Lambton in the lands surrounding the castle through the Wear Valley. The first of seven pits was sunk in the village of Bournmoor from 1783 onwards, which together were to make up what was known as Lambton Colliery. The company was first formed when Lambton's grandson, John Lambton the first Earl of Durham, entered Parliament as a Whig politician. The formal name change to Lambton Collieries was adopted in 1896. In 1910 the company merged with Hetton Collieries to form Lambton & Hetton…
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- Coordinates
- 54.7855, -1.4755
- District
- County Durham
- Parish
- Pittington
- Postcode
- DH6 1PX
- Parliamentary constituency
- City of Durham
- Established
- 1820
Sources
- wikidata: Q16931912 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Lambton Collieries (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lambton Collieries?
- Lambton Collieries is in North-East England, United Kingdom (postcode DH6 1PX), in the parish of Pittington.
- When was Lambton Collieries built?
- Built or established in 1820.
- How do I get to Lambton Collieries?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode DH6 1PX. It sits within the City of Durham parliamentary constituency.