Monument record MDR6970 - Swadlincote Colliery, later Cartwright Colliery (site of), Midland Road, Swadlincote

Type and Period (1)

COLLIERY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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None recorded

Full Description

Swadlincote Colliery is named on late 1880s OS maps with sidings and a short stretch of railway connecting it to the Burton and Swadlincote branch railway. (1, 2) The colliery is named as Cartwright Colliery on the 1902 OS map. (3) Old Shafts are named on the 1920 revision. (4) The area is shown as an open space on the 1976 map. (5) There is now no evidence of the former colliery [1995]. (6)

Sources/Archives (6)

<1> SDR17371 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 1888. OS County Series 1:10560, sheet: Derbyshire LX NW, surveyed 1881-1882, published 1888. 1:10560.
<2> SDR17386 Map: OS. 1887. OS County series 1:10560, sheet Derbys LX NE/Leics XV NE. Surveyed 1879-81, published 1887. 1:10560.
<3> SDR17372 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 1902. OS County Series 1:10560, sheet: Derbyshire LX NW/Staffordshire XLVIIA NW, second edition 1902, revised 1899-1900. 1:10560.
<4> SDR17373 Map: OS. 1920. OS County Series 1:10560, sheet Derbys LX NW/Staffs XLVIIA NW. Edition of 1925, revised 1920. 1:10560.
<5> SDR11944 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 1976. 1:10000.
<6> SDR17387 Index: Malone, S (RCHME). 1995. New National Forest Survey: 921522. 921522. pp. 207-8.

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Grid reference	Centred SK 2997 2005 (292m by 341m) (Approximate)
Civil Parish	SWADLINCOTE, SOUTH DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE