Pilemarsh Colliery

1808 'FOR SALE BY AUCTION, .... ALL that Valuable ESTATE, called Pilemarsh Colliery, — consisting of a Right of Coaling and Mining in, upon, and under about 160 Acres of Land, situate at Pilemarsh, near Crewshole, in the parish of St. George, in the County of Glocester, but within mile and half the populous and commercial city Bristol; that is to say,—under all the Lands part the Manor of Blacksworth, which lie on the south side of the London road, in the parish of St. George aforesaid, .... Said Coal Works comprising Three open Pits, late full working, upon those valuable, well-known, and inexhaustible Veins, called "The Devil's Vein," "The Buff Vein," "The Rag Vein,” "The Top-Mill Grit Vein," "The Under-Mill Grit Vein," "The Fig Vein,” and "The Francomhe,” all which run through the Lands in question, and are supposed to be, upon average, from two and a half to three feet in thickness. Also, all that capital Steam Engine, called the Old Lifting Engine, of Thirty Horse Power, comprising 48 fathoms 10 1/2 inches shide, with rods, buckets, clacks, &c. one steam cylinder, one main oak beam, two spring beams, one house-water cistern, lead pipe to feed the piston, two steam pipes, two cast iron cisterns, two wrought iron boilers, two steam boxes with valves, &c. one injection cock, one jack pump, one injection pipe, hotwell and pump for ditto, working gear, and other materials for ditto, one capstan and shears, one capstan rope, sundry loose materials, as grate, bars, furnace doors, fire irons, gallery railings, flooring, &c. Also all that other Steam Engine, situate near the last lost, culled the Thatch Pit Engine,, consisting of 18 fathoms of 8 1/2 inches shide, with rods, buckets, and clacks, 43 fathoms of square pump rod, with splicing plates, engine boiler, fly-wheel, &c. Also all that other Steam Engine, situate near the last lot, called The Sandy Ground Engine, as there complete. Also all that Freehold Messuage or Tenement, used Counting-house, with the Ground behind and adjoining thereto, sown turnips, and all that piece waste land between the Counting-house and the water Engine, with piece of Meadow Ground adjoining, extending to Anderson, New, and Company’s Manufactory, containing together four acres and two perches. .... '

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