heapstead meaning

noun
  The buildings and works around a mine-shaft

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1. Outdoors, next to the Heapstead, is a sinking engine, mounted on red bricks.
2. The heapstead and winding engine house were constructed entirely of brick to a German design and is unique in British coal mining.
3. The downcast ( Busty ) shaft suffered damage all the way to the surface, and then the casing between the pit top and the heapstead } } was blown down.
4. Caphouse Colliery was again developed in 1876 when the steam winding engine house, boiler yard, chimney, stone heapstead and ventilation shaft were completed for Emma Lister Kay, the sole proprietor.
5. The winding engine was the source of power for hauling miners, equipment and coal up and down the shaft in a cage, the top of the shaft being in the adjacent heapstead, which encloses the frame holding the wheel around which the hoist cable travels.