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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
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
Shipcote Colliery A John Bowes pit at Shipcote whose single shaft cut nine coal seams on its way down to the Hutton.	Tyne and Wear	c. 1855-1856–c. 1880	Coal
Littletown Colliery The Earl of Durham's Pittington pit, known locally as Lambton Colliery.	County Durham	1831–1914	Coal
St. Helen's Colliery A Pease pit called into being by the Stockton and Darlington Railway.	County Durham	1830 (sinking)–31 December 1926	Coal
West Thornley Colliery A shallow Tow Law pit that outlived its ironworks by more than eighty years.	County Durham	By 1854–6 November 1965	Coal
Victoria Garesfield Colliery A Priestman drift mine where rats spread a fatal jaundice in 1935, now a wildlife reserve.	Tyne and Wear	1870–13 July 1962	Coal, Fireclay
South Hetton Colliery Colonel Braddyll's deep east Durham pit, said to be the first in the county to wind coal in cages.	County Durham	1831 (sinking)–July 1982	Coal
Shildon Lodge Colliery A Bolckow, Vaughan pit at Shildon begun on the Surtees estate in 1830.	County Durham	1830–1937	Coal
North Biddick Colliery A Wearside pit worked for at least 225 years, scarred by explosions in 1743 and 1773.	Tyne and Wear	By 1710–March 1935	Coal
Gordon House Colliery A Cockfield pit whose Hall Pit was sunk straight onto a dyke.	County Durham	1863 (worked)–17 February 1962	Coal
Black Prince Colliery The coking-coal pit sunk for Charles Attwood's Tow Law ironworks in 1846.	County Durham	1846–1933	Coal
Black Boy Colliery The Nicholas Wood pit of 1830 whose Machine Pit became Auckland Park Colliery.	County Durham	1830–1939	Coal
Addison Colliery A Stella Coal Company pit in a royalty worked since 1390, with a village entirely of its own men.	Tyne and Wear	1864 (sinking)–22 February 1963	Coal
Malton Colliery A Browney valley drift mine whose shale heaps are now a wildlife reserve.	County Durham	1870–22 July 1961	Coal
West Auckland Colliery The Backhouse pit of 1838 that grew West Auckland, worked again as a drift until 1967.	County Durham	1838–July 1967	Coal
Waterhouses Colliery A Pease pit whose drifts fed more than 200 coke ovens and built the village around them.	County Durham	1859–August 1966	Coal
Whitworth Park Colliery A ruinous speculation of 1842 on Spenny Moor that was reopened in 1928 and worked until 1974.	County Durham	1839 (sinking)–29 July 1974	Coal
South Medomsley Colliery A Dipton pit that made firebricks from the clay in its own coal seam and worked on until 1980.	County Durham	1861–July 1980	Coal, Fireclay
Ludworth Colliery A small east Durham pit that lost eight lives in two shaft accidents seven years apart.	County Durham	1837–1931	Coal
Iveston Colliery A Consett Iron Company pit where a dispute over the 'keeker' ended in 350 people evicted.	County Durham	1839–1892	Coal
Tanfield Moor Colliery One of the oldest pits on the Tanfield waggonway, at work from the 1760s to 1948.	County Durham	1768–October 1948	Coal
Tanfield Lea Colliery The Joicey family's big pit at Tanfield Lea, home of the 'Pitman's Poet' Tommy Armstrong.	County Durham	1829–25 August 1962	Coal
Merrington Colliery The pit that made a fortune for Reay and Johnson in the early mining town of Spennymoor.	County Durham	1841 (first coal)–3 June 1928	Coal
East Tanfield Colliery The last colliery on the Tanfield waggonway, whose closure ended the line's working life.	County Durham	1844–9 January 1965	Coal
Dipton Colliery A John Bowes pit whose Delight Pit gave the colliery its other name.	County Durham	April 1855–November 1940	Coal
Browney Colliery A Bell Brothers pit whose owners gave its village a school and a thousand-book library.	County Durham	1871–July 1938	Coal
New Brancepeth Colliery A pit that sold barytes as well as coking coal, and whose village still bears its name.	County Durham	1856 (sinking)–17 July 1953	Coal, Barite, Witherite, Fireclay
Leasingthorne Colliery An ironmasters' colliery, held by Bolckow, Vaughan and then Dorman Long from the 1870s until nationalisation.	County Durham	1836–October 1967	Coal
Kimblesworth Colliery Coal sold at Tyne Dock as 'West Leverson Wallsend', from a village the pit created.	County Durham	1873–4 November 1967	Coal
Harton Colliery The shaft where the Astronomer Royal weighed the Earth with a pendulum in 1854.	Tyne and Wear	1841 (sinking)–25 July 1969	Coal
Castle Eden Colliery A pit famous for its household coal that ended its life pumping water for its neighbours.	County Durham	1840 (sinking)–1893	Coal
Langley Park Colliery Closed a hundred years to the year after its first coal, in a village it had created.	County Durham	1873 (borings)–31 October 1975	Coal
Bewicke Main Colliery A Perkins family pit near Kibblesworth whose site is now a caravan park.	Tyne and Wear	1862–1932	Coal
Thornton Mine, Balbeggie A wartime mine near Kirkcaldy that out-produced Benarty man for man in 1947.	Fife	1945–January 1953	Coal
Canderrigg Nos 6 and 7 Colliery Low wet roads where a putter kept his hand flat on the hutch or lost his fingers to the roof.	South Lanarkshire	1938 or 1939–November 1964	Coal
Charlaw Colliery A pit leased in 1733 and revived a century later as Sacriston's partner colliery.	County Durham	By 1733–After 1935	Coal
Chester South Moor Colliery Its last pit ponies were filmed being led out when it closed in October 1967.	County Durham	1860s–October 1967	Coal
Low Bitchburn Colliery A Crook drift mine whose whole output was made into coke in the 1890s.	County Durham	1850–1937	Coal
Byron Colliery A Waldridge owners' pit that lasted barely twenty years, its coal hauled by a third cylinder on the Daisy Hill engine.	County Durham	1850s–1879	Coal
Oxclose Colliery A Newcomen engine at work by 1718, one of the first steam engines in the North East.	Tyne and Wear	By 1718–After 1865	Coal
Kenton Colliery Its coal went down the waggonway where George Stephenson watched a Blenkinsop rack engine run in 1813.	Tyne and Wear	from By 1732	Coal
Greenhill Colliery The Polquhairn Coal Company's small pit near Ochiltree, merged with Polquhairn in 1958.	East Ayrshire	By 1910–September 1958 (merged with Polquhairn)	Coal
Percy Main Colliery The first colliery to hold back a quicksand with cast-iron tubbing, and the pit that named its village.	Tyne and Wear	1799–1895	Coal
Fawdon Colliery The colliery behind the first railway whose wagons could grip and release a moving rope.	Tyne and Wear	from 1810	Coal
Waldridge Colliery A pit wrecked by striking pitmen in its first winter and blown up on screen in its last.	County Durham	1 August 1831–April 1926	Coal
Ouston Colliery An early edge-rail colliery whose owners lit its offices and houses from their own gas works.	County Durham	By 1807–31 January 1959	Coal
Washington Colliery Britain's first shaft sunk through quicksand by freezing, at a colliery whose pits ran from A to I.	Tyne and Wear	By 1736–21 June 1968	Coal
Woodland Colliery An upland Durham coking-coal pit that grew to nearly five hundred men before closing in 1921, leaving its Cowley shaft to work on for another thirty years.	County Durham	By 1874–March 1921	Coal
Fourstones Colliery A South Tyne colliery listed for more than a century, working the Little Limestone Coal beside its own bank of lime kilns.	Northumberland	1805–April 1927	Coal
Cromhall Quarry A flooded limestone quarry whose Triassic fissure fillings have given more than thirty species of small fossil reptile, one of them named after the village.	South Gloucestershire	1840–1998	Limestone
Crow Trees Colliery A railway pioneer's colliery whose locomotives were banned for five years because a historian disliked the noise.	County Durham	By 1834–By 1894	Coal
Derwent Crook Colliery An old Low Fell pit whose boiler flew over its own engine-house in 1841.	Tyne and Wear	from By 1746	Coal
Axwell Park Colliery A Swalwell pit that drowned soon after sinking, came back for sixty-five years, and ended worked from next door.	Tyne and Wear	1839–1954	Coal, Fireclay
Blaydon Main Colliery A Tyneside pit reopened after thirty years in 1828, when the winning of its coal set off great rejoicing.	Tyne and Wear	1828–1921	Coal, Fireclay
Whitley Colliery A coastal pit that once fired the Cullercoats salt pans, and lost a man and five boys to a badly hooked corf.	Tyne and Wear	By the 1660s–c. 1880	Coal
Kepier Colliery A city-edge pit remembered in the local name for the green that replaced it.	County Durham	from By 1818	Coal
Coxhoe Colliery A medieval coal township whose colliery waited on the Clarence Railway to reach the sea.	County Durham	from 1843	Coal
Framwellgate Moor Colliery A colliery sunk on piles through 120 feet of quicksand, and the reason two villages exist.	County Durham	1841–1924	Coal
Scremerston Colliery A Greenwich Hospital pit whose 1840 engine house still carries the names of its builders.	Northumberland	By 1769–1944	Coal, Fireclay
Plashetts Colliery A moorland pit and its village, drowned beneath Kielder Water.	Northumberland	1850s–1964	Coal
Clockburn Drift Marley Hill's back door: a two-mile drift carrying coal out under the hills to the Derwent.	Tyne and Wear	1952–1983	Coal