Cambois is a village

Village

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 in south-east Northumberland

Northumberland

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, England

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. It is situated on the north side of the estuary

Estuary

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 of the River Blyth

River Blyth, Northumberland

The River Blyth flows eastwards through southern Northumberland into the North Sea at the town of Blyth. It flows through Plessey Woods Country Park. The River Pont is a tributary....

 between Blyth

Blyth, Northumberland

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 and Ashington

Ashington

Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England with a population of around 27,000 people; it was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is located some north of Newcastle upon Tyne off the A189. The south of the town is bordered by the River Wansbeck...

 on the North Sea

North Sea

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 coast.

History

According to Paul L. Younger of Newcastle University, the etymology of the name is probably Gaelic.http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/p.l.younger/documents/TheGaelicFoundationsoftheGoldenAgeofNorthumbria.pdf

It is reputed to have been a French-owned island, dating back many centuries; hence the name.

Cambois was a coal mining

Coal mining

The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...

 village from 1862 to week ending 20 April 1968 when Cambois Colliery closed.

Cambois is now closely related to the area known as North Blyth. The main commercial activity (2011) is the importation of alumina for the manufacture of aluminium.

In 1883, the Coal Company gave a list of the property it owned, or leased:

North Blyth Staithes 7 houses
Mr Moore, colliery Manager 1 house
Mood & Scott 2 houses
Stable Cottage 1 house
Schoolmaster's House (at Boca Chica) 1 house
Sea View 12 houses
Quality Row 18 houses
Sinker's Row 20 houses
Chapel Row 20 houses
Mawburn Terrace 30 houses
Gee's Houses 30 houses
Watergate 29 houses
Cowgate 26 houses
Bridge Street 40 houses
Boca Chica 46 houses
Boat House Terrace 46 houses
Mr Freeman 5 houses
New Cottages 18 houses

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