Area Map showing surrounding Mines, As is usual in The Durham Coal field it is littered with Mines, shafts and Railway Lines. Area A Old Shield Row Colliery, a number of shafts in this area, Heavily wooded area now but the railway lines are now the Consett to Sunderland Walk, lots of old Bridges still in place. B number of unnamed old shafts, another tree planted area very close to the former railway line. C Tanfield Mines The very top not quite in view East Tanfield (now Tanfield Railway !) also just above area A was the Tanfield Lea, now an Ind estate, a vent Pipe still remains from the shaft. D Beamish Mary, marked simply as Beamish. E Beamish 2nd Pit with a number of shafts connected to that mine. F East Stanley Colliery, other than part of the former wagon way, very little evidence of a Mine, The site is now back to a famers field. G West Stanley Colliery (Burns Pit) This had a horrific Mining Disaster, a memorial is on site otherwise little evidence of its past. H Louisa Colliery Not quite in View, Asda now forms part of the site. I Twizzle Colliery, now a Chicken farm, Handon Hold Colliery was to the east of this.
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