Duxbury Park Colliery (ruin)

Duxbury Park Colliery was quite large in its day around the turn of the 20th Century having spread a good deal of spoil across the landscape the colliery was served by the Ellerbeck Branch of the London, Midlands and Scotland Railway purpose made for Duxbury Park and nearby Ellerbeck Collieries.

Duxbury Park Colliery had two main shafts and a number of local coal seams are available below ground here all the way down to the “Bone Coal”, at around 130 metres below ground - I don’t know how deep the shafts were here but it would appear there were eight different seams to choose from in the strata below. The first coal encountered would have been only about 7 metres below ground.

The rubble and spoil from the colliery spread over a wide area of ground but there isn’t a lot to see that isn’t mangled or buried, there is a large, flat area adjacent to the current industrial buildings for the numerous railway sidings that would have been next to the old colliery buildings and mineshafts.

Created: 2  November  2019  Edited: 29  November  2023