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Bobgins engine house is a scheduled ancient monument located near Causey in County Durham. The structure dates to the Industrial Revolution period and served as a pumping or winding engine house associated with coal mining operations in the region. Engine houses of this type were essential infrastructure for extracting coal from increasingly deep seams, utilising steam power to operate pumps or winding gear. The surviving remains preserve evidence of the technological and industrial heritage that characterised the North East coalfield during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Bobgins engine house 250m south west of New House, Causey is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018225. View the official record →
Bobgins engine house is a scheduled ancient monument located near Causey in County Durham.
Bobgins engine house 250m south west of New House, Causey 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 1018225.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Causey Arch, Tanfield (0.2 km), Gibside Hall, 17th to 19th century country house (3.9 km), Old Hollinside fortified hall house, Whickham (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bobgins engine house 250m south west of New House, Causey's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Bobgins engine house 250m south west of New House, Causey stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.