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Some typical colliery-style houses from the late nineteenth century still exist in
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estates have been built in an effort by
Pegswood to "reinvent itself as a cheaper rural alternative to Morpeth and Newcastle." More recent renewal efforts include plans for a facelift for its Welfare Centre and a £48,000 garden with the colliery as its theme. Local services are also being improved.
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meaning pig. Pegswood started as a small farming settlement, yet with the discovery of coal and the opening of
Pegswood colliery, the village expanded to accommodate miners in 1872. The colliery shut in 1969, however the village is still classed as a pit village. All that is left today are the Pit
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The existence of coal is attested in documentation dating from 1754. The
Pegswood colliery was one of many in the north-east of England. The colliery opened ca. 1872 and was in operation until 1969. Acquired by the S.H. Fraser company in the 1880s, in 1947 the
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Stobswood and West Chevington, east to the boundary of Ashington, west to Benridge and Causey Park and south to Fairmoor and
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opened up a 170-acre (0.69 km) open-pit mine at
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