[Coquet]

Looking at some detailed 1753 notes on borings for coal relating to Hauxley Colliery and came across this relating to Wellhaugh point. Looks like there was mining at Wellhaugh, which ties in nicely with my long held suspicion that there is a shaft exposed next to the quarry there. Will add a photo when I get one.

"and for that other coal I mean the coal that was formerly set on at the Well Hugh Rock and has its course thro’ the lower part of Mr Taylors Liberty next the link, this coal is likewise but a low coal, at most but 2 feet three inches and has but a short course from the Well hugh Rock thro’ Mr Taylors liberty into Mr Widdringtons ground where this coal is cut off –
Besides this Coal has a very hard stone to sink thro’ and very much water, which will be chargeable at seventy or eighty yards …..to the deep of all the old waste that is as full of water as it can hold."