Duxbury Park Colliery (ruin)

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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.

Massive Spoil from Duxbury Park Colliery
Old Map of Duxbury Park Colliery C1929

Local History

Historic monuments near Duxbury Park Colliery (ruin)

  • Moated site of Clayton Hall, adjacent fishponds and channels – 8.34 km away
  • Headless Cross, Grimeford – 3.47 km away
  • Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds – 2.01 km away
  • Pike Stones chambered long cairn – 5.25 km away
  • Round cairn on Noon Hill – 6.20 km away
  • Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 6.70 km away
  • Bradley Hall, moated site, fishponds and connecting channels – 6.38 km away
  • The Moat House moated site 600m WNW of St David’s Church – 5.11 km away
  • Cross base on Standish Wood Lane 700m south east of Standish Hall – 5.70 km away
  • Moated site at Arley Hall, Haigh near Wigan – 3.34 km away
  • Mabs Cross on Standishgate, 20m west of Mabs Cross School building – 7.71 km away
  • Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington Hall – 8.00 km away
  • Cross base at the junction of Standish Green Lane, Standish Wood Lane and Beech Walk, 200m NNW of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 5.06 km away
  • Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 4.93 km away
  • Market cross in the marketplace to the west of St Wilfrid’s Church, Standish – 4.39 km away
  • Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park House – 6.85 km away