Esh Colliery is a large colliery village, 1 mile south from Esh village, and near to Waterhouses station on the Dearness valley branch of the North Eastern railway. The inhabitants are chiefly employed at the collieries of Messrs. Pease and Partners Limited. Here is a chapel of ease. The Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1885, is an edifice of brick, and will seat 300 persons; the Primitive Methodist chapel, an iron building, formerly a school, has 150 sittings, and the Baptist chapel, formerly a cottage, has sittings for 200 persons. Here is a British school. Esh Miners’ Institute, erected by Messrs. Pease and Partners Limited, in 1877, is a handsome building of white brick, consisting of reading, recreation and science rooms, and a library of 320 volumes, and is in connection with the circulating library of Messrs. Pease: there are 300 members: a science and art class is held here in connection with the Science and Art Department, South Kensington.