My immediate reaction to the word "cinder" is that it refers to some kind of
slag, perhaps from ironmaking, but I do not quite see how that fits, unless
the pit happened to be next to a slag heap (cinder hill).
Peter King
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Mike Syer
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Subject: Cinder pits
Please can some one advise me why a coal mine shaft might have been called
"Cinder Pit"?
There was one at Quarrington [i.e. Bowburn], in Durham. But I see from
web-search that there were others called this, elsewhere in the country.
Thanks
Mike
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