High Westwood

High Westwood is an English village in County Durham, a few miles to the north of Consett, near Ebchester and Hamsterley.[1] It once had a colliery and coke works.

Westwood colliery began operation in the 1870s and was owned by Consett Iron Company. It ceased operations in 1964.[2]

With the closure of the colliery in 1964 the miners' houses at High Westwood were demolished when they became vacant. Those houses at Allendale Cottages were to be used by the council for housing but they too were to be demolished.[3] By 1972 demolition of the houses was practically complete.[4]

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey (2005) Consett & Derwent Reservoir, sheet 307, 1:25,000. Southampton: Ordnance Survey. (Explorer Series); another OS-based map showing relative positions of features, including the closed railway: Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Westwood Colliery". Durham Mining Museum.
  3. ^ Consett Urban District Council. Report 1964. p. 16.
  4. ^ Consett Urban District Council. Report 1972. p. 16.