Reading again some of the information from the Memoir about Eglingham, a closer look at Curlsheugh would be exciting. The area is moorland and undisturbed. There are a lot of what look like bell pits and somewhere must be the foundations of the cottage that was there. The Memoir suggests spoil heaps too!
The Parish Registers show the earliest references to Coal Burn, then Coal Houses (1740s to 1750s). we then get Coal Burn Houses , Ditchburn Coal Houses, and Hagdon Coal Houses all in the 1780s. In the 1790s Eglingham Coal Houses appears. The baptism of one of my ancestors at Curlheugh is in 1821.
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