Marshall Green Colliery Landsale Way Bill S&Dr 1857. Stockton Darlington Railway

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Seller: *caveat-emptor* ✉️ (2,062) 100%, Location: EDGWARE , GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 256406975191 MARSHALL GREEN COLLIERY LANDSALE WAY BILL S&DR 1857. STOCKTON DARLINGTON RAILWAY.

MARSHALL GREEN COLLIERY

LANDSALE WAY BILL S. & D. R. 26-27 JULY 1857.

STOCKTON & DARLINGTON RAILWAY

This colliery was at Witton le Wear, 10 miles SW of Durham. I was opened in 1830 and closed in 1936.

The landsale or land-sale system was a rental or tenement system operating in the 18th and 19th centuries in Great Britain, named after the practice of local selling of coal and operation of small-scale "land sale" collieries. This was in contrast to the larger scale, and highly mechanized "water-sale" collieries exporting coal by sea and later canal to southern England.

Land-sale coal was free of tax, and so coal users in coal producing areas could obtain coal free of duties for "water-sale coal" shipped by sea or canal, such as duties paid at the ports of London. The smaller local "land-sale" collieries were less productive, but also had lower costs as they paid lower wages to miners, or were rented by self-employed tenants. While winter weather affected all mines, the smaller land sale collieries were more prone to lying idle. In the unusual case of the Wear Valley and South Durham, land-sale miners were able to migrate seasonally to work on bigger water-sale collieries during part of the winter.

The landsale tenement system involved renting out coal rights on land to smallholders to operate mines. In Decisions of the Court of King's Bench 1793, it was stated that a "land sale colliery" was a "term well known in the coal mining areas" and understood as including not only the rental or tenement on the land to be mined, but also the required stock of horses, gins, ropes, and other things necessary for working the mine, alt hough whether this included the rent on the horses and gins was disputed in at least one case.

Examples of landsale operations or rents under the landsale system include Brandon, County Durham where John Shaw was operating a landsale pit in 1836 using a whim-gin, usually employing horses or a bull, to raise the coal, Ushaw Moor Colliery where in 1858 a drift mine was established selling coal on this system, and Bedford Colliery at Guest Street where there was a landsale yard.

An unusual piece of mining and very early railway history.

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  • Condition: Used
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  • Company/ Era/ Region: STOCKTON & DARLINGTON RAILWAY
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Theme: Railwayana
  • Type: Paper Railwayana
  • Year: 1857
  • Options: Receipts

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