May Beck and Allen Tofts Pits

May Beck and Allen Tofts Pits, Sneaton and Eskdale cum Ugglebarnby

Around 1810, a six-inch seam was being worked near May Beck (NZ 892030), in Sneaton parish, four miles ENE of Goathland (Young and Bird, 1822). The land owner, James Wilson, was boring in search of deeper seams, and the hole, which was then 222 feet deep, had passed through a four-inch seam at 74 feet and a five-inch seam at 127 feet. The same source also notes that in the late eighteenth century, a two-foot thick coal was worked at Allen Tofts (NZ 830029), but this was found to be a localised thickening. Both seams were said to be not far below the grey (or blue) limestone.

A level (NZ 835051)alongside the road at Fair Head, near Grosmont, was said to have worked ganister.