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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Plump Hill Dolomite Quarry A Forest of Dean lime and road-stone quarry where orchids now grow on the floor.	Forest of Dean	Late 1800s–Early 1900s	Limestone
Wensley Quarry A Wensleydale quarry that once sent limestone by train to the Teesside steelworks.	North Yorkshire	1947–Still active	Limestone
Laffack Colliery A St Helens colliery of the 1760s whose 1850s records read as a roll of explosions, falls and overwinds.	Merseyside	1769 (first record)–After 1875	Coal
North Hetton Colliery A Moorsley pit of 1821 with its own brickworks and school, closed with its sister the Hazard in 1935.	Tyne and Wear	1821 (sinking also dated 1826)–1935	Coal
Westbury Brook Ironstone Mine A Forest of Dean mine sunk to feed the Dowlais ironworks, which produced nearly a million tons of ore.	Forest of Dean	Late 1830s–1893	Iron
Ty'n-y-bryn Quarry A Dolwyddelan slate quarry with a rare standard-gauge incline running straight to its mill.	Conwy	1840s–1914 (Penllyn via its mill to 1924)	Slate
King Barrow Quarry Victorian Portland quarries where the quarrymen dug into Roman burials and beehive chambers.	Dorset	1800s–c. 1900	Limestone
Yeolands Quarry One of Portland's deepest quarries, once earmarked for an Eden Project-style Jurassic park.	Dorset	to 2000s (largely redundant)	Limestone
Perryfield Quarry Portland Stone Firms' main quarry, whose Whitbed went into Westminster Abbey and Waterloo Bridge.	Dorset	1890s–Still active	Limestone
Cambrian Quarry Glyn Ceiriog's big slate quarry, with a tunnel railway and a chairman who paid its wages himself.	Wrexham	1857 (company–15 March 1947	Slate
Tytherington Quarry A railway-age limestone quarry near Thornbury, still sending stone out by train.	South Gloucestershire	1872–Still active	Limestone
Fairy Cave Quarry A Mendip quarry that broke into some 4.5 kilometres of cave passage before planning ran out.	Somerset	1920s–1977	Limestone
Ribblehead Quarry A Settle-Carlisle railway quarry that later sent ballast down the line and is now left to rewild.	North Yorkshire	Late 1800s–1998	Limestone
Broadcroft Quarry A working Portland stone quarry with a butterfly reserve on its own infilled ground.	Dorset	1900s (merged family quarries)–Still active	Limestone
Tout Quarry A Portland stone quarry worked for two centuries and turned into a sculpture park in 1983.	Dorset	c. 1780–1982	Limestone
Jordans Mine The mine that moved Portland stone working underground, beneath a cricket ground, schools and roads.	Dorset	2008 (mine–Still active	Limestone
Wigpool Ironstone Mine One of the Forest of Dean's big iron-ore mines, now a winter roost for rare horseshoe bats.	Forest of Dean	By 1856–1924 (principal mine 1918)	Iron
Wynne Quarry A Ceiriog valley slate mine that served as a wartime store, a water supply and a show cave.	Wrexham	c. 1770–1928 (Coflein gives 1920)	Slate
Cedryn Quarry A remote Snowdonia slate quarry with its own five-mile tramway, given up because its slate was poor.	Conwy	1827 (first record)–c. 1880 (company dissolved 1885)	Slate
Chwarel Ddu Quarry The Lledr Valley's first slate quarry, whose 1810 cart road is now part of the A470.	Conwy	c. 1800–c. 1929 (after a 1920s revival)	Slate
Westleigh Colliery A Leigh pit where, in 1896, an engine started the wrong way and a cage of eight fell 370 yards.	Greater Manchester	from By 1862	Coal
Kirkless Hall Colliery John Lancaster's 1845 colliery, the seed of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, where thirteen died in 1847.	Greater Manchester	from 1845	Coal
Shipley Colliery The Miller Mundy estate collieries, with their own canal, whose Woodside pit is remembered by a scaled-down headstock.	Derbyshire	By the mid-18th century–1960s	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Stanley The 'Deep Drop' at Stanley, one of the deepest pits of its district, where twenty-one died in 1879.	West Yorkshire	1840 (Silkstone Pit)–1922	Coal
Sutton Colliery The 'Bread and Herring Pit' of Sutton-in-Ashfield, now a forest park where carved miners remember the five dead of 1957.	Nottinghamshire	1874–25 August 1989	Coal
Bycars Colliery A Burslem colliery of the potters Enoch Wood and James Caldwell, where six died in 1859.	Staffordshire	By 1816–1915	Coal, Ironstone
Newmarket Colliery A Calder-side pit at work by 1775 and still working in 1983, one of the oldest in the country.	West Yorkshire	By 1775 (sunk anew 1837)–1983	Coal
Gerards Bridge Colliery An early St Helens pit by the canal where a father and four sons died together in the 1847 explosion.	Merseyside	By 1805–1870s (last listed 1873)	Coal
Douglas Bank Colliery A Wigan-coalfield pit sunk 737 yards, where shaft sinking twice killed five men, in 1865 and 1888.	Greater Manchester	1863–December 1920	Coal
Heworth Colliery A Gateshead pit of 1710 and 1821, its old shaft still capped in a field, that employed 2,000 before closing in 1963.	Tyne and Wear	1821 (High Heworth from 1710)–29 June 1963	Coal
Pudley Hill Colliery A Botfield pit of 1829 that became east Telford's shared mine-drainage station, its beam engine blown up in 1971.	Shropshire	1829–By 1914	Coal, Ironstone
Stafford Colliery, Priorslee A Priorslee pit that took in Dark Lane's survivors up a 180-foot chain ladder after the 1884 explosion.	Shropshire	By 1884–After 1915	Coal, Ironstone
Lawn Colliery The deepest pit in the Shropshire coalfield in 1841, whose pumped water later fed the Priorslee furnaces.	Shropshire	c.1820–1906	Coal
Kells Pit, Whitehaven The Whitehaven pit whose 1790s Heslop winding engine, the last of its kind, is in the Science Museum.	Cumbria	from By 1781	Coal
Rounds Green New Pit Oldbury's worst pit disaster, nineteen dead in 1846, which reached Parliament and a famous Black Country poster.	West Midlands	By 1846–1919	Coal
Mesne Lea Colliery A Worsley pit thought free of gas, where in 1867 a man went in with a candle before the fireman's round and seven died.	Greater Manchester	from 1824	Coal
California Pit, Aspull A Wigan pit wound by a Nasmyth engine, where in 1865 the rope came off the drum and eight fell 270 yards.	Greater Manchester	1848–1891	Coal
New Cottam Colliery A Barlborough pit where a link fitted the night before snapped in 1853, later reopened as Hazel Colliery and brickworks.	Derbyshire	c.1853–1914 (as Hazel Colliery)	Coal
Springwell Pit, Dawley A Dawley pit where eight young men riding the winding chain died when it broke in 1872, two days after it was mended.	Shropshire	to About 1880	Coal, Ironstone
Dark Lane Colliery Shropshire's 'Cage Pit', an early cage-winding colliery, where twelve fell to their deaths in 1862, the county's worst mining toll.	Shropshire	1850–c.1900 (pumping until 1911)	Coal, Ironstone
Burgh Colliery A Chorley pit with its own tramway into town, where three girls were among the dead of 1846, after the 1842 Act had barred them.	Lancashire	from By the 1820s	Coal
Great Bridge Colliery A Black Country pit where a doggy opened his safety lamp beside a leaking dam in 1849 and fourteen died.	West Midlands	from By 1849	Coal
Flowery Field Colliery A Hyde pit with a steam engine at its shaft bottom, where in 1823 a lady breakfasted underground and in 1842 seventeen died.	Greater Manchester	By 1842 (possibly 1822)–By 1847	Coal
Croft Pit, Whitehaven A Lowther pit of 1774 whose 1831 explosion left no survivor in the district where it fired, and whose site became the Ladysmith Pit.	Cumbria	1774–c.1905 (renamed Ladysmith Pit)	Coal
Cannock Chase No. 4 Pit A Chasetown pit where a hemp marker on the winding rope, used for want of an indicator, hid the wear that killed six in 1868.	Staffordshire	—	Coal
Rainton Plain Pit A Rainton pit that exploded twice in six years, killing 82, as the Davy lamp was coming into use.	Tyne and Wear	from 1817 (sinking)	Coal
Kersley Colliery A Bolton-area pit working four seams from four shafts, where a Christmas Eve explosion killed eleven in 1879.	Greater Manchester	—	Coal
Lillydale Colliery A small Bucknall pit whose drive into flooded old workings ended in a manslaughter trial for its owner.	Staffordshire	About 1856–1922	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Bruntcliffe A Morley pit that exploded twice in one night in 1882 and was stormed by rioting strikers in 1893.	West Yorkshire	from About 1852	Coal
Westwood Colliery A Newton Chambers pit where candles were allowed beside a gassy goaf until six died in 1862.	South Yorkshire	—	Coal
Shevington Colliery A small Wigan pit, the Prince Albert, where a former fireman's lamp key caused a thirteen-death explosion.	Greater Manchester	1855–1890	Coal
Bigge Pit, Willington A Bell family pit on Tyneside where gas from the Bensham was piped up a vaulted shaft and burned as a flare.	Tyne and Wear	18th century–1889	Coal
Fatfield Colliery An early Wear colliery whose 1708 explosion, blowing three people out of the shaft, was reported to the Royal Society.	Tyne and Wear	from 1700s	Coal
Lakes Pit, Dukinfield The Astleys' other Dukinfield pit, where 38 died in 1866, eight years before the Deep Pit disaster.	Greater Manchester	—	Coal
Heys Colliery An Ashton-under-Lyne pit on a one-in-two seam where forty died in 1857 after fire at the underground boilers.	Greater Manchester	By 1851–1860–1864	Coal
Higham Colliery Messrs Charlesworth's colliery at Higham, near Barnsley, working the fiery Silkstone seam, where an explosion killed 13 in 1860.	South Yorkshire	1854–1881 or 1899	Coal
Bent Grange Colliery Thomas Butterworth's colliery at Oldham, where explosions killed 16 in 1850 and 20 in 1853.	Greater Manchester	By 1841–By 1869	Coal
High Brooks Colliery A colliery at Park Lane, Ashton-in-Makerfield, owned by Turner, Mercer and Evans, where explosions killed 30 in 1866 and 37 in 1869.	Greater Manchester	By 1864–1898	Coal
Winstanley Colliery Meyrick Bankes's colliery at Winstanley, near Wigan, whose railway ended at the coal tip that became Wigan Pier.	Greater Manchester	By 1562–1900	Coal
Coppull Colliery John Hargreaves' colliery at Coppull, near Chorley, working the fiery Arley mine, where an explosion killed 36 in 1852.	Lancashire	By 1847–1862	Coal
Bardsley Colliery The Bardsley Colliery Company's pits near Ashton-under-Lyne, working thin fiery seams at 470 yards, where an explosion killed 53 in 1858.	Greater Manchester	By 1858–After 1880	Coal
Stormont Main Colliery J. Grace and Partners' colliery at Wrekenton, Gateshead, where an explosion killed 27 in 1843.	Tyne and Wear	from By 1831	Coal
Whiston Colliery The Wigan and Whiston Coal Co.'s colliery near Prescot, worked 1855-1901, where seven died in 1878.	Merseyside	1855–1897 or 1901	Coal
Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery R. Craik & Co.'s colliery at Smithies, Barnsley, joined to East Gawber, where 20 died in 1883.	South Yorkshire	c. 1878–1910	Coal
Bryn Hall Colliery A Crippin family pit at Bryn, twice wrecked by explosion, that George Orwell visited for The Road to Wigan Pier.	Greater Manchester	1859–1945	Coal
Newbury Colliery A Mendip-edge pit that fed Westbury's ironworks and closed in 1927 for want of money to deepen it.	Somerset	1798 or 1799–August 1927	Coal
Methley Junction Colliery A Briggs pit near Normanton that ended as a ventilation shaft with the area's last wooden headgear.	West Yorkshire	1845 (sinking)–1903	Coal
Lumley Colliery A Lambton-owned colliery of a dozen numbered pits, worked from the 18th century until 1966.	County Durham	1790s–22 January 1966	Coal
Burdon Main Colliery A North Shields colliery that worked the Low Main out under the Tyne by candlelight.	Tyne and Wear	1811–After 1860	Coal
Darley Main Colliery G. Jarratt's colliery in Worsbrough Dale, south-east of Barnsley, where 75 died in 1849.	South Yorkshire	By 1843–1886	Coal
Edmunds Main Colliery Mitchell & Co.'s colliery in Worsbrough Dale, Barnsley, flooded after the 1862 explosion.	South Yorkshire	1853–1889	Coal
Astley Deep Pit Britain's deepest coal pit when it opened in 1858, and the scene of a 54-death explosion in 1874.	Greater Manchester	1847 (sinking)–7 August 1901	Coal
Dean Lane Colliery Bristol's largest pit until 1906, now a park in Bedminster.	Bristol	to 1906	Coal
Pemberton Colliery One of Lancashire's biggest pits: the Blundells' Pemberton works with 2,800 people and 17 miles of sidings.	Greater Manchester	1820 (Bye Pit)–November 1946	Coal
Jarrow Colliery Simon Temple's Tyneside pit, wrecked by five explosions in under thirty years.	Tyne and Wear	1801 (sinking)–1851	Coal
Aldwarke Main Colliery A John Brown pit wedged between two main lines and the Don, raising coal and coke for the Sheffield steelmaker.	South Yorkshire	1867 (Barnsley seam)–30 June 1961	Coal
Oxcroft Colliery A Markham-family pit near Clowne that became a drift mine and then a coal-screening plant.	Derbyshire	1901 (sinking)–1974	Coal
South Normanton Colliery The Winterbank pit, whose ground is now a designer outlet with a memorial to its 1937 dead.	Derbyshire	1893 (sinking)–1952 or 1957	Coal
Talk o' th' Hill Colliery A Talke colliery where two explosions six years apart killed 109 men and boys.	Staffordshire	—	Coal
Swaithe Main Colliery The Barnsley pit where 143 died in 1875, and whose survivors escaped through a neighbouring colliery's shaft.	South Yorkshire	1861–1894	Coal
Hetton Colliery The pit that proved coal lay under the Magnesian Limestone, opening up east Durham, and the start of Stephenson's Hetton railway.	Tyne and Wear	1820 (sinking)–11 July 1950	Coal
Quinta Colliery A border colliery whose tramway to the canal fed into the Glyn Valley line.	Shropshire	c. 1850s–early 1900s	Coal
Wilson Wood Colliery An Ingleton pit drowned in a night and brought back by a mill-owner who pumped out 58 million gallons.	North Yorkshire	1853 (sinking)–1866 (flooded)	Coal
New Ingleton Colliery The Dales pit that built Ingleton's New Village and closed its coal industry in 1936.	North Yorkshire	1912 (sinking)–February 1936	Coal
Union Pit The Cliviger company's gaslit headquarters pit, which outlasted its neighbours into the Second World War.	Lancashire	c. 1853–1943	Coal
Railway Pit A candle-lit Cliviger drift whose workings crept four miles under the moor.	Lancashire	c. 1840–1938	Coal
Burnt Hills Colliery A moorland pit at Clow Bridge tied to the canal by three miles of tramroad.	Lancashire	1840s–1920	Coal
Martholme Colliery A Great Harwood pit drowned after the 1921 strike and revived by Moorfield men for three more years.	Lancashire	1860s–1922	Coal
Whitebirk Colliery A Blackburn colliery once run by a co-operative society, whose clay works outlived its coal.	Lancashire	1870 (sinking)–12 June 1895	Coal, Fireclay
Rishton Colliery A Rishton pit that went on supplying water, to a reservoir and a paper mill, long after its coal stopped.	Lancashire	1883 (sinking)–5 May 1941	Coal
Huncoat Colliery The Accrington pit that wound three collieries' coal and fed the town's power station.	Lancashire	1885 or 1890 (sinking)–9 February 1968	Coal
Scaitcliffe Colliery A colliery in the middle of Accrington, worked from a single thin seam for seventy years.	Lancashire	1880 (sinking began)–29 June 1962	Coal
Hoddlesden Colliery A Darwen moorland pit whose fireclay mattered as much as its coal, feeding the Places' pipe and brick works.	Lancashire	c. 1860–1938 (old pits)	Coal, Fireclay
Copy Pit Colliery The small Cliviger pit that named the Copy Pit railway route over the Pennines.	Lancashire	1830 (drift)–March 1964	Coal
Reedley Colliery Burnley's Barden Pit, where east Lancashire's first pithead baths opened in 1914 and the NCB later tried out American mining methods.	Lancashire	1879–May 1960	Coal
John Pit A Standish pit begun in the 1830s that outlived its deeper neighbour Taylor by breathing through its shaft.	Greater Manchester	c. 1836–1954	Coal
Strangeways Hall Colliery A big Hindley colliery that survived its owners' winding-up in Chancery in 1897 to raise 300,000 tons a year.	Greater Manchester	c. 1842–January 1937	Coal
Taylor Colliery A deep Standish pit that ended as John Pit's upcast and pump, remembered by a miners' war-memorial cairn in Birley Wood.	Greater Manchester	early 1860s–1930 (coal winding)	Coal
Greenhead Colliery, Harperley A Harperley pit of a dozen men that outlasted four owners and three abandonments before closing in 1907.	County Durham	1860s–24 May 1907	Coal
Blaguegate Colliery The Earl of Lathom's own colliery at Skelmersdale, older than the town's railway station, which once bore its name.	Lancashire	c. 1850–February 1933	Coal