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North East England’s Weirdest Geographic Mysteries: Mines to Hadrian’s Wall
Explore North East England’s strangest geographic mysteries, from abandoned coal mines beneath the North Sea to Ice Age flowers in Upper Teesdale, hidden coastal history and the enduring questions surrounding Hadrian’s Wall.
Off the Durham coast, miners descended at Easington, Dawdon, Westoe and Monkwearmouth before travelling miles underground to work beneath passing ships. The last of these pits closed in the 1990s. Once pumping stopped, the workings flooded, leaving hundreds of kilometres of connected tunnels beneath beaches, housing and open water. Managing that mine water is an…
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