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Shotton Colliery history
Old Shotton can be traced back as far as 900 AD, when it was known as Scitton, which in Old English means ‘of the Scots’, The village name was first recorded in 1165 as ‘Sottun’ By the 16th century, when Easington was under the control of Prince Bishops, the village had become known as Shotton.
The Colliery
In 1833, the Haswell Coal Company began to sink a colliery to the west of Old Shotton, near Shotton Grange Farm. This pit began producing coal the following year and the village of Shotton soon started to develop. The pit was initially prosperous, but closed on November 3, 1877, causing people to leave the village to work at other pits in the area. In 1900, the pit reopened and grew rapidly, leading to an increased population in the village. In 1972, the National Coal Board announced that it was closing the colliery, at a cost of 800 jobs. The only pit building left is now used as a second hand car show room.
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