Coe

Historical usage

A small stone cabin built by Derbyshire lead miners over or near a shaft, used to store tools and spare clothing — the ordinary miner's equivalent of the grander Count House kept by a mine's management. Coes are recorded across the Derbyshire orefield wherever lead was mined, from at least the post-medieval period through the industry's 19th-century decline, as a basic, practical piece of site infrastructure at even small and short-lived workings.

Regional variation

The term and the structure are specific to the Derbyshire lead field; ruined or footings-only coe remains are among the more common surviving field monuments at smaller Peak District mine sites.

Mines associated with this term

Included only where MineArchive's own research gives a reasonable evidential basis — not every mine where this might plausibly apply.

• Knotlow Mine — Derbyshire (surviving physical example)
  Possible coe (miners' hut) remains are recorded at the site.

Sources

1. (secondary) A Brief History of Derbyshire Lead Mining — Derbyshire Heritage
2. (secondary) Barmote court — Wikipedia

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