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Esh Winning is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.7698°, -1.7037°.

Mines & mining heritage · North East England

Esh Winning

Esh Winning in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Esh Winning is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Esh Winning is a village, and location of a former colliery, in County Durham, England. It is situated in the Deerness Valley 5 miles (8 km) to the west of Durham.

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The village was founded by the Pease family in the 1850s to service a new mine on the Esh Estate. The name of the village comes from two elements, first the older nearby village of Esh, a Northumbrian term for Ash, and second Winning, which was a Victorian term used when coal was found. Opencast mining was performed in the hills around the village from the late 1970s to 1990s, after which the land was reclaimed and restored. In March 2006 the National Lottery granted £25,200 towards the restoration of the Esh Winning Colliery banner. The banner group planned to use the money to restore the banner, which was on display at Beamish Museum, and to produce a replica for display at the Durham…

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