Interactive Map Coal Authority
 

This is the Coal Authority's 'Interactive Map' page:

http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/coalauthority/home.html

you have to zoom in to Amble then click what data you want to view from the menu on the left.

Worth a look at "Mine Entry"; first to the area south of Amble and to Acklington, and over at Shilbottle to Newton on the Moor for the vast number of shafts about that place.

Back at Amble they have a shaft marked in the trading estate, and on the road to Moor house and the beach road to Hauxley. The shaft markers/crosses are clickable but only the odd one has some extra info. The Shaft on the beach road to Hauxley says: "This shaft has been secured to an unknown specification at some time in the past." The one in the School Field? at South Broomhill/ Hadston says "a concrete stopping was built 10m down the drift and backfilled to the surface in November 1968"

Next of interest is "Development High Risk Area" this shows multiple bands of high risk passing through Amble which coincide with seam outcrops. (click 'coal outcrops' to check) Any of that could have worked by Bell Pits from medieval times!

Also three shafts on Coquet Island. Sill marked as high risk areas.

one of the old Togston Shafts has an interesting note:

"This shaft was filled in 1963 to an unknown specification. Our records also
indicate that the R.A.F disposed of potentially explosive material in the shaft
during the 1950s. The shaft was partially removed by opencast workings and
was sealed at the base of the excavation in 1982." :eek:

So if you're at Togston one night and you hear a deep rumble and the ground shakes for a bit don't worry you know what it is.

My goodness, there'll be a lot of proud men in Togston when they hear the earth moved for them :D

Looking for that one and can't find it, which cross is it?

Here it is two shafts together, you might have to move to 'record 2 of 3' with the little arrows at the top of the box