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Roachburn Colliery

England
List entry 1017643
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1017643
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.11 hectares
Grid reference
NY 61646 59798
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Roachburn Colliery is a coal mining site located in Cumberland, England, dating from the industrial period. The colliery represents the exploitation of local coal resources during the development of Cumberland's mining industry, which expanded significantly from the eighteenth century onwards. The site preserves evidence of underground coal extraction infrastructure and associated industrial activity characteristic of early modern colliery operations in the region. Like many historic collieries in northern England, Roachburn Colliery forms part of the broader archaeological record of industrial heritage that shaped the economic and social landscape of Cumberland during the industrial era.

Roachburn Colliery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017643. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Roachburn Colliery?

Roachburn Colliery is a coal mining site located in Cumberland, England, dating from the industrial period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017643.

Who is responsible for protecting Roachburn Colliery?

Roachburn Colliery 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 1017643.

What other scheduled monuments are near Roachburn Colliery?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm (0.7 km), The Curricks camp (2.5 km), Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system (4 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
0.7 km
The Curricks camp
2.5 km
Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
4 km
Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
5 km
Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
5.2 km
The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
5.3 km
Tower Tye ringwork
5.6 km
Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
5.8 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Roachburn Colliery

Roachburn Colliery stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.

The wider landscape

Around Roachburn Colliery

Hadrian's WallArchaeological site · ~13.7 milesBattle of Solway Moss 1542Battle (1542) · ~15.3 miles
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