New Hartley is a village in South East Northumberland, England, adjacent to Hartley, Seaton Delaval and Seaton Sluice. The village is just off the A190 road about six miles (10 km) north of Tynemouth and four miles (6 km) south of Blyth. In 2001 the village had a population of 1,691.
History
The village is historically linked to nearby Hartley village, which was originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement. Records show that coal mining began in 1291. A number of pits were created and exhausted at Hartley, before a new pit called Hester was sunk at a site in between Seaton Sluice and Seaton Delaval. Soon after, families settled around the new mine, and the village of New Hartley was created. Houses were built to the North and West of the pit, in a rough L shape, which included a Methodist chapel and an Inn, the "Hartley Hastings Arms". The New Hartley Pit Disaster occurred at the village in 1861 killing 204 men and boys which lead to a change in the law and a "best practice" of building 2 shafts to a pit through out Britain and many countries across the world.
