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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Cwmdows Colliery A Newbridge level of about 1804 where the 1842 commissioners found six-year-olds underground; it worked again until the 1930s.	Caerphilly	c. 1804-1805–Early 1930s	Coal
Cwmlucu Colliery A 305-foot Blaendare pit that passed from the Pontypool and Ebbw Vale ironmasters to a local owner and was filled in 1964.	Torfaen	By 1864–1949 (seams abandoned)	Coal
Castle Colliery, Llanelli A Llanelli level of 1867 with an early patent-fuel works, the only town mine to outlast nationalisation, closed in 1952.	Carmarthenshire	1867–1952	Coal
Ynyshir House Colliery The pit that started Ynyshir in 1845, which fed Crawshay's Treforest tinplate works and closed as the Jones Navigation in 1909.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1845–31 January 1909	Coal
Rhydding Colliery An eighteenth-century drift near Neath with its own tramroad to the Tennant Canal, where three men died clearing a fall in 1876.	Neath Port Talbot	Mid-18th century–By 1918	Coal
Llwyncelyn Colliery A Porth pit whose owner and one of its colliers won Albert Medals at the 1877 Tynewydd rescue.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1851–April 1895	Coal
Brynna Colliery A water-troubled Victorian pit and three 1910s-20s drifts in Brynna Woods whose workings ran under the village.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1840s–1930s	Coal
Mynydd Maen Colliery A Pontypool slant that ran Elled as its outlier and ended under the National Coal Board in 1955.	Torfaen	1913–October 1955	Coal
Lady Margaret Colliery An 1853 Bute pit at Treherbert that grew to over a thousand men before ending as a pumping shaft.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1853–Early 1940s (production)	Coal
Abernant Colliery (Argoed) A Sirhowy valley pit opposite Llanover that the Bargoed Coal Company worked for smith coal from 1890 to 1932.	Caerphilly	1888 (sinking)–1932	Coal
Tylecoch Colliery An 1854 Treorchy pit that passed through seven owners and three closures before a 1917 revival.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1854–1930	Coal
Elled Colliery A Pontnewynydd level named for the Elled seam, later the return airway of the Mynydd Maen mine.	Torfaen	1890s–1943 (production)	Coal
Bute Colliery The Rhondda's first steam-coal colliery, which sent the valley's first steam coal to Cardiff in 1855.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1851 (trial shaft)–After 1936	Coal
Llanover Colliery A Sirhowy valley pit that became the pumping station keeping water out of Markham and Oakdale.	Caerphilly	c. 1888–c. 1929 (production)	Coal
Whitworth Colliery (Tredegar) A Tredegar pit whose under-manager, overman and fireman died together in old workings in 1914.	Blaenau Gwent	1876–July 1921	Coal, Ironstone
Rhondda Main Colliery A £1.25 million Lewis Merthyr colliery whose pits were named after the owner's daughters, and which lasted only ten years in production.	Bridgend	1909 (sinking)–8 November 1924 (abandoned)	Coal
Blaendare Colliery A Pontypool fireclay drift of the 1840s that ended its life, after 1949, as a small coal mine for Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds.	Torfaen	By 1843–After 1972	Coal, Fireclay
Treforgan Colliery Built as a short-life drift, Treforgan became Britain's most profitable anthracite mine before a £7 million gamble on deeper seams failed.	Neath Port Talbot	1963–1966–30 September 1985	Anthracite
Avon Colliery The Great Western Railway's own pit, sunk to fuel its engines and nicknamed the 'Umbrella Pit' for its constant closures.	Neath Port Talbot	1877–1882 (sinking)–26 September 1969	Coal
Lady Lewis Colliery The Lewis Merthyr company's deep pit at Ynyshir, where the Nine Feet and Red Vein lay so close they were worked as one seam.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1901 (sinking)–1950	Coal
Maesteg Deep Colliery The Llynfi drift whose Two-Feet-Nine was sold as the best house coal in South Wales, and where a runaway carriage of night-shift men killed four in 1904.	Bridgend	Late 1860s–1950	Coal
Cilfrew Colliery A Dulais valley level beside a tinplate works, sold for £1,500 in 1929 and wound up two years later.	Neath Port Talbot	Before 1902–1931	Coal
Blaengwynfi Colliery The Afan valley sinking where eight men were overwound in the bowk in 1891, as the village of Blaengwynfi was being built around it.	Neath Port Talbot	from c. 1889 (sinking)	Coal
Gilmilnscroft Colliery An estate colliery between Sorn and Auchinleck, shown on a map of 1828 and still working for William Baird in the 1920s.	East Ayrshire	By 1828–c. 1925	Coal
Beoch Colliery The Dalmellington Iron Company's moorland mines above the Doon valley, said to be the highest coal workings in Scotland.	East Ayrshire	1837–March 1968	Coal, Ironstone
Hattonrigg Colliery The Bellshill pit where an overwound cage fell 192 fathoms with eight men in 1910.	North Lanarkshire	from By 1870	Coal, Fireclay
Cotmanhay Colliery Barber, Walker's Ilkeston outpost, one of the Eastwood firm's ten pits in 1872.	Derbyshire	1849–1881	Coal
Wellshot Colliery The Cambuslang colliery whose fireclay became bricks stamped 'Wellshot', 30,000 a day by 1899.	South Lanarkshire	1873–1905	Coal, Fireclay
Stonelaw Colliery Rutherglen's Stonelaw pits, where three men died together in the firedamp explosion of 1858.	South Lanarkshire	1854–After 1903	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Stoneclough Colliery Kearsley's many-pitted colliery, whose manager died with three men trying to wave firedamp away with their waistcoats.	Greater Manchester	1854–1901	Coal
Walterclough Colliery The last pit east of Halifax: coal and fireclay for Brooke's brickworks, sent up to Hove Edge by aerial ropeway.	West Yorkshire	1888 (as generally stated)–18 February 1969	Coal, Fireclay
Norbury Colliery The Hazel Grove colliery whose 1795 pumping engine pirated Watt's condenser, and whose engine house still stands.	Greater Manchester	By 1704–1927	Coal
Stopes Colliery The Fletchers' Little Lever pit, its founder a former canal-boat lad who became the village's first chairman.	Greater Manchester	1855–1908	Coal
Blackleyhurst Colliery When a boiler burst at Blackleyhurst in 1865, the men were drawn up the shaft by a railway locomotive.	Greater Manchester	By 1852–December 1935	Coal
Stepends Colliery The Plains pit whose washer served two mines and whose coal dust went into bricks stamped 'Stepends'.	North Lanarkshire	from 19th century (ironstone and coal)	Coal
Old Duffryn Colliery Thomas Powell's first Aberdare pit, which sent the first Welsh steam coal to France and lost 28 in 1845.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1840 (sinking)–1925	Coal
Torry Colliery, Torryburn A Forth-side coal works shipping coal by 1609, later prized for a parrot coal said to fetch top price in London.	Fife	from By 1609	Coal
Old Etherley Colliery An old Witton Park colliery name revived by a tiny private drift company in the 1950s and worked to 1965.	County Durham	By 1905–After 1965	Coal
Clough Hall Colliery Kidsgrove pits named after the Kinnersleys' Clough Hall, where an inspector called an 1865 shot 'perfect madness'.	Staffordshire	Before 1850–After 1941	Coal
Letcha Mine The St Just sett whose 1857 map swallowed Wheal Hermon, Cornwall's oldest mapped mine, and left a moonlit chimney.	Cornwall	from Before 1835	Tin
Dulais Colliery, Onllwyn A small Onllwyn anthracite pit where gas burned four men in 1907, three of them fatally, on one man's first shift underground.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1903–Before 1947	Coal
Markham Colliery, Sirhowy Valley A Sirhowy Valley pit named after Sir Arthur Markham whose coal fired the Paddington expresses at Old Oak Common.	Caerphilly	1910 (sinking)–September 1985	Coal
Ince Hall Deep Pit A Hindley pit of many names, the Deep Pit, the Arley Mine and Brown's Pit, where firedamp killed thirteen in 1851.	Greater Manchester	from By 1851	Coal
Seaton Colliery The Hetton owners' pit beside Seaham, called the Nicky Nack in 1852, which the Londonderrys bought and merged into Seaham in 1864.	County Durham	1844 (sinking)–1864 (merged with Seaham)	Coal
Norton Green Colliery The Conduit company's Moat Colliery at Norton Canes, whose chimney is the last colliery chimney on Cannock Chase.	Staffordshire	from By 1894	Coal
Ynysawdre Colliery A Tondu pit with fifty coke ovens beside it, whose last trial slants of 1915 found only old workings and water.	Bridgend	By 1875–1898	Coal
Glyngwyn Colliery Nixon's Navigation's house-coal level at Miskin, opened in 1885 and worked for forty years.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1885–December 1925	Coal
Abergwawr Colliery A Thomas Powell pit at Aberaman that ended as Aberaman Colliery's upcast and pumping shaft.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1840s or 1854–1886	Coal
Windber Colliery A cluster of Cwmdare drifts and levels whose 1913 entrance stone still stood in 1978.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1905–Before 1940	Coal
Llwynhelig Colliery A Cwmdare drift in an 18-inch seam where one of the coalfield's first electric coal-cutters worked in 1909.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1905 or 1906–1932 or 1946	Coal
Cwmdare Colliery A Victorian Aberdare pit where three men were suffocated in 1879 while clearing a choked drainage pipe.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	By 1858–c. 1891	Coal
Cwmmawr Colliery A copper-works coal level of the 1860s above Cwmafan, reopened three times before 1944.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1869–1944	Coal
Cwmfuwch Colliery Cory Brothers' drifts in a side valley above Ogmore Vale, their coal sent down to Aber's screens.	Bridgend	After 1901–1935	Coal
Dyllas Colliery An ironmaster's drift of 1840 at Llwydcoed, where the Nine Feet seam ran about 21 feet thick.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1840–Before 1947	Coal
Ton Phillip Colliery Twin slants near Tondu that rose to 767 men with Tytalwyn in 1918 and ended worked by a dozen.	Bridgend	Late 1890s–1944 or 1945	Coal
Whinney Hill Colliery, Cleator Moor The Cleator Moor pit where thirty died in 1848, after men took the tops off their safety lamps to light their pipes.	Cumbria	from By 1848	Coal
Blackett Colliery A Melkridge pit of 1873 that once employed over 450 in the Little Limestone Coal, abandoned in 1927.	Northumberland	1873–1927	Coal
Witton Colliery A Sacriston pit sunk for Charlaw in 1859 and wound by the same steam engine for seventy-six years.	County Durham	1859 (sinking)–8 January 1966	Coal
Collyland Colliery An Earl of Mar pit of 1764 whose old workings later took the coal the NCB's Glenochil mine was sunk for.	Clackmannanshire	from 1764	Coal
Middle Patricroft Pit A two-shaft Ince Hall pit near Hindley, each shaft to its own seam, where twelve died in 1849.	Greater Manchester	from By 1849	Coal
Golynos Colliery An Abersychan ironworks pit whose coal ranked third in Britain in the Admiralty steam trials of 1856.	Torfaen	By 1842–1909	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Diamond Colliery An Ystradgynlais drift whose anthracite was so hard and clean it was said to rattle like china.	Powys	1874–1938	Coal, Anthracite
Meiros Colliery Llanharan's first deep pit, cut into seams that stood almost on end.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1880–1931	Coal
Clynmill Colliery A Plymouth Ironworks pit that raised coal and ironstone together, wound by water balance.	Merthyr Tydfil	Before 1850–1921	Coal, Ironstone
Cwmbach Colliery The 1837 Aberdare pit whose Admiralty steam coal started the Cwmbach coal rush.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1837–1896	Coal
Ventners Hall Colliery A late Northumberland drift on the Thirlwall Coal that worked out two square kilometres in twenty-two years.	Northumberland	1937–20 February 1959	Coal
West Denton Colliery A Tyneside colliery with a pit sunk in 1733, still working with forty men in the 1920s.	Tyne and Wear	1733–1924	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale An ironworks colliery where coal and ironstone came up the same water-balance shafts, renamed for the Prince of Wales in 1918.	Blaenau Gwent	1838–1929	Coal, Ironstone
Aber Colliery An Ogmore valley drift whose ventilation fan was switched off every weekend until the night it killed five.	Bridgend	1865–1914	Coal
Charles Pit, Llansamlet A Llansamlet pit thought safe for naked lights until gas from old workings next door killed nineteen.	Swansea	1821–1876	Coal
Middlestone Moor Colliery A one-seam pit near Spennymoor that never employed more than about thirty men.	County Durham	By 1930–1965	Coal
Bildershaw Colliery A West Auckland pit that tried three seams in its first fifteen years.	County Durham	By 1930–16 October 1956	Coal
Bryan's Leap Colliery A Rowlands Gill colliery that swapped its old shaft workings for a drift in 1945.	County Durham	By 1935–1950	Coal
Barcus Close Colliery A small north-west Durham pit that was all but given up in 1935 and grew to 260 men under the NCB.	County Durham	By 1921–April 1966	Coal
Wooley Colliery A Pease's West pit near Crook that was discontinued in 1931 and came back with nearly 700 men.	County Durham	August 1864–1963	Coal
South Shildon Colliery A small Busty seam pit of 1929 that the National Coal Board enlarged and kept going until 1958.	County Durham	1929–August 1958	Coal
Newbiggin Colliery A seaside town's colliery that raised 470,000 tons a year at its 1940 peak.	Northumberland	1908–11 November 1967	Coal
Stanley Colliery, Crook A Pease colliery near Crook whose drift employed more men than its pit.	County Durham	Before 1828–November 1911	Coal, Fireclay
Hole-in-the-Wall Colliery Crook's last pit, whose miners took their banner to the 1964 Gala against their own lodge's decision.	County Durham	1935–21 November 1964	Coal
Kepier Grange Colliery The last of the Kepier pits east of Durham, closed in 1924 after eighty years.	County Durham	1844–22 October 1924	Coal
West Pelton Colliery A Joicey pit of three shafts whose Hutton seam lay only 350 feet down.	County Durham	1858–19 March 1921	Coal, Fireclay
Derwent Colliery A Consett Iron Company pit where the Hutton seam lay barely fifty feet below the surface.	County Durham	1856–21 November 1964	Coal, Fireclay
Trimdon Colliery The pit that named the village of Trimdon Colliery, closed once when its lease ran out.	County Durham	1840–1925	Coal
South Tanfield Colliery A Joicey colliery whose winning of the Main Coal in 1837 was celebrated in the village.	County Durham	1837–31 March 1915	Coal, Fireclay
Adelaide Colliery A Pease colliery whose Jane Pit went down through eight seams to over a thousand feet.	County Durham	1830–July 1924	Coal
Cold Knott Colliery A moorland pit near Crook where five seams lay within 180 feet of the surface.	County Durham	By 1854–28 April 1926	Coal, Fireclay
Preston Colliery A North Shields pit rebuilt by Dutch investors, whose new shaft was named after the syndicate leader's fiancée.	Tyne and Wear	By 1860–28 September 1929	Coal, Fireclay
Bedlington 'A' Colliery The Bedlington Coal Company's first pit, sunk in 1838, which outlived all its sister shafts.	Northumberland	28 September 1838–25 September 1971	Coal
Aykley Heads Colliery A pit on the edge of Durham city that came back for fifteen years with a dozen men.	County Durham	By 1857–September 1949	Coal
Callerton Colliery A Georgian landsale pit west of Newcastle that kept going with a few dozen men until 1948.	Tyne and Wear	1827–11 September 1948	Coal, Fireclay
Frankland Colliery The Earl of Durham's riverside pit below Framwellgate Moor, where Finchale's monks had dug coal in 1350.	County Durham	1840–March 1934	Coal
East Pontop Colliery A north-west Durham coking pit that worked a Hutton seam seven and a half feet thick.	County Durham	1868 (reopened)–28 June 1930	Coal
Carterthorne Colliery A cluster of drifts on the fells west of Toft Hill, worked down to two men before it closed in 1927.	County Durham	By 1855–April 1927	Coal
West Bitchburn Colliery A Snowdon family pit whose Brockwell seam lay barely 108 feet below the Beechburn valley.	County Durham	1860s–12 April 1926	Coal
Blackfield Colliery A Tow Law pit worked by four men at the end, closed in 1928.	County Durham	1865–17 September 1928	Coal
Mount Moor Colliery A Black Fell pit worked by the 1720s, where a slipped rope killed three brothers and a boy of seven in 1814.	Tyne and Wear	Before 1826–May 1931	Coal
Sherburn House Colliery A Lambton pit east of Durham that ran out its Hutton in 1894 and lasted forty more years on the seams below and above.	County Durham	1844–May 1935	Coal
New Delaval Colliery A Seaton Delaval offshoot whose miners were evicted when it was idled in 1930, then brought back three years later.	Northumberland	1859–2 April 1955	Coal
Bowden Close Colliery Every ton it raised went into its own coke ovens.	County Durham	1845–June 1930	Coal, Fireclay
Westerton Colliery Worked as one plant with Binchester, the two fed 395 coke ovens whose waste gas fired the boilers.	County Durham	1840 (sinking)–October 1961	Coal