Lickar Colliery

Overview

One of the deeper collieries of north Northumberland, near Lowick, worked from 1854 and marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1866; Strutt and Allan and then Sanderson and Dunn owned it in the 1860s and 1870s.

History

Lickar Colliery lay near Lowick, about seven and a half miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Coal may have been mined in the area since the 18th century, but the main Lickar Colliery, the one the Ordnance Survey's surveyors recorded on the first edition map of 1866, was worked from 1854. It was one of the deeper coal mines in the north of Northumberland, and its coal probably went to local uses such as a lime kiln nearby and the surrounding villages.

Strutt and Allan owned the colliery in the 1860s, and it returned coal in the Mineral Statistics of 1860 and 1865. Sanderson and Dunn held it in the 1870s. When it closed is not recorded.

Geology

Unknown.

Workings

Unknown.

Closure

Unknown.

What remains

Unknown.

Recorded claims

Individual factual claims, each attached to the source(s) that support it below. Where sources disagree, both are kept.

• The main Lickar Colliery, recorded on the Ordnance Survey map of 1866, was worked from 1854. ¹
• Lickar was one of the deeper coal mines in the north of Northumberland. ¹
• Lickar Colliery was owned by Strutt and Allan in the 1860s and by Sanderson and Dunn in the 1870s. ²
• Lickar is returned as producing coal in 1860 and 1865. ²

Photographs & further reading

Sources

1. (secondary) Lickar Colliery — North East Heritage Library (Coals Archive)
2. (primary) Lickar Colliery — Durham Mining Museum

Record created: 22 October 2026 · Last researched: 22 October 2026