Site of the Stanhope Silkstone Main Colliery
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Site of the Stanhope Silkstone Main Colliery
Image: © Jonathan Clitheroe Taken: 21 Jul 2010
Public footpath close to the Bagger Wood picnic site. This is also the site of the Stanhope Silkstone Main Colliery which closed in 1875. The freight railway line also ran from this point joining the Woodhead line south of Thurgoland. A chap in the nearby Monkey pub informed me that the pit was also known locally as Levy Tag although I was later informed that this was actually the alternative name of the Wentworth Silkstone Colliery which was located further north on the opposite side of Bagger Wood.
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53.515787
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