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Bestwood Colliery engine house is a substantial Victorian industrial structure located in Nottinghamshire, dating from the mid-nineteenth century. The building housed the steam engines that powered the pumping and winding mechanisms essential to the operation of Bestwood Colliery, one of the significant coal mines developed during the expansion of Nottinghamshire's coalfield. Constructed in brick with characteristic Victorian industrial architecture, the engine house represents the technological infrastructure that supported large-scale coal extraction during the period of Britain's industrial dominance. The site survives as a testament to the region's mining heritage and the engineering achievements of the nineteenth-century coal industry.
Bestwood Colliery engine house is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017653. View the official record →
Bestwood Colliery engine house is a substantial Victorian industrial structure located in Nottinghamshire, dating from the mid-nineteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017653.
Bestwood Colliery engine house is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1017653.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Coal mining remains at Broad Oak Farm (7.2 km), Moat and fishpond at Strelley, 240m SE of All Saints' Church (7.3 km), Medieval city wall (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bestwood Colliery engine house's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bestwood Colliery engine house stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.