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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Coppy Hall Colliery An Aldridge colliery sunk through 210 feet of red marl that raised both coal and ironstone for half a century.	Staffordshire	c. 1857–1909	Coal, Ironstone
Hanwood Colliery The last colliery of Shropshire's small Hanwood coalfield, where miners walked over two miles to an eighteen-inch seam.	Shropshire	By 1873–1942	Coal, Fireclay
Lydbrook Colliery A Lydbrook colliery so mired in mortgages that the Crown's own solicitors lost track of who owned it.	Forest of Dean	Before 1862–1917	Coal
Parkend Colliery The Parkend pits of Edward Protheroe, Dean's biggest producer in 1856 and New Fancy's lifeline until 1944.	Forest of Dean	By 1827–1944	Coal
Coombs Wood Colliery The Halesowen pit where eight men died behind a burning ventilation sheet in 1929 while a ninth crawled to safety.	West Midlands	1908–September 1953	Coal
Manor Powis Colliery Stirling's anthracite pit, credited with Scotland's finest anthracite and its first two-storey pithead baths.	Stirling	1910-1914–1972	Coal
Emley Moor Colliery An Emley pit with roots in horse-gin days that outlived the 1984-85 strike only briefly, closing in 1985.	West Yorkshire	By 1821–1985	Coal
Hindley Field Colliery A four-shaft Wigan coalfield colliery of about 1866-1927 beside the Westleigh line at Hindley.	Greater Manchester	c. 1866–30 March 1927	Coal
Southgate Colliery The pit that made Clowne a mining town, sunk 1,000 feet to the Top Hard and drowned out in 1929.	Derbyshire	1877–15 July 1929	Coal
Moston Colliery Platt Brothers' deep Manchester pit, scene of the 1940 man-haulage crash, whose 1931 pithead baths still stand.	Greater Manchester	1854–June 1950	Coal
Binley Colliery Coventry's pit village colliery, once the most efficient in Warwickshire, whose site became a nature reserve named after two of its miners.	Warwickshire	1907-1911–1963	Coal
Malago Vale Colliery A deep Bedminster pit where men resisted safety lamps, and a naked light fired the gas that killed ten in 1891.	Bristol	1840s–1898	Coal
Arthur and Edward Colliery The Waterloo pit at Lydbrook, whose coal crossed the roads on a trestle tramway and whose men escaped a flood in 1949.	Forest of Dean	1830s–23 December 1959	Coal
Llay Hall Colliery A Wrexham colliery of 1877-1948 whose engine house, rare early washery, workshops and chimney all survive and are listed.	Wrexham	1877–1948	Coal, Fireclay
Pentremawr Colliery Pontyberem's Capel Ifan slants, home of the Pontyberem safety lamp and of Britain's largest recorded coal and gas outburst in 1966.	Carmarthenshire	c. 1870–31 March 1974	Coal
Tudhoe Grange Colliery A Weardale Iron Company pit at Low Spennymoor that stopped in 1885 but whose buildings and reservoir lingered for decades.	County Durham	5 May 1869–March 1885	Coal
Penchford Colliery A tiny landsale colliery of riverside levels near Elsdon, worked by the Paunchford Coal Company in the 1880s.	Northumberland	By 1866–late 19th century	Coal
Eshott Colliery A small Eshott colliery with steam pumping and winding engines, advertised in a printed notice as 'now working'.	Northumberland	Early 19th century–before 1890s	Coal
Kiln Pit Hill Colliery A small Northumberland pit of the 1920s and 1930s owned by a woman, Mrs M. A. Robson.	Northumberland	1921–after 1940	Coal
Ulgham Grange Colliery A Widdrington-area colliery of Wood and Slinn that worked out its three seams in seventeen years.	Northumberland	1871–1888	Coal
Stannington Church Colliery A pit sunk beside Stannington church in 1878, given up in 1905 and brought back with fifty men in the 1920s.	Northumberland	1878–1905	Coal, Fireclay
Millfield Grange Colliery One of the simple shaft pits of Cockfield Fell's coal rush, its tramway earthworks still traceable.	County Durham	By 1883–25 February 1911	Coal
Holly Moor Colliery A Summersons Ltd pit on Cockfield Fell where a nineteen-year-old onsetter fell to his death from an inset in 1912.	County Durham	By 1912–29 May 1929	Coal
Blackton Colliery A Baldersdale pit of the 1920s, on a moorland site with older shafts, a level and a short railway still to be seen.	County Durham	1921–June 1927	Coal
Tees Hetton Colliery An Evenwood pit of the 1870s and 1880s, given up in 1894 when its last coal was too costly to work.	County Durham	By 1873–3 July 1894	Coal
South Birtley Colliery A Birtley landsale pit beside a brickworks, on ground riddled with eighteenth-century shafts called Lucky, Prosperous and Goodspeed.	Tyne and Wear	By 1865–8 February 1922	Coal
Healey Cote Colliery A small pit near Rothbury, sunk in 1915, where a roof fall in 1924 killed a fifteen-year-old and a deputy.	Northumberland	1915–7 May 1935	Coal
Hareshaw Head Colliery A Bellingham family pit that stayed outside the National Coal Board until its last shift in 1952.	Northumberland	1841–17 September 1952	Coal
East Castle Colliery A coking colliery near Annfield Plain with 74 ovens and its own chapel village, all cleared away after 1917.	County Durham	1860s–1917	Coal
Bullocks Hall Colliery A colliery whose township, rows and church were later swallowed whole by an opencast site near Chevington.	Northumberland	1900s–9 December 1933	Coal
Blackhouse Colliery A Birtley Iron Company pit of 1913 that shut within a year, came back in 1920 with nearly 300 men and closed in 1932.	Tyne and Wear	1913–May 1932	Coal
Abbots Close Colliery An isolated little pit near Crook, sunk on an old clay pit and run by Thomas Wailes for over thirty years.	County Durham	By 1877–2 June 1928	Coal
Storey Lodge Colliery A Cockfield colliery that worked out its seams in 1904, then came back half a century later as a twelve-man drift.	County Durham	By 1833–1904	Coal
Kirkheaton Colliery A small Kirkheaton pit and limekiln where two Robert Burns, senior and junior, managed fifteen men for over thirty years.	Northumberland	By 1855–1924	Coal, Fireclay
East Cramlington Colliery A Cramlington pit of the 1840s whose great waste heap, kept growing for twenty years after closure, became a nature reserve.	Northumberland	By 1848–c. 1939	Coal
West Cramlington Colliery A Cramlington colliery worked for a century, 1838 to 1938, where a call to stop the trains in 1926 led to the derailing of the Flying Scotsman.	Northumberland	16 May 1838–30 August 1938	Coal, Fireclay
Longwitton Colliery A Trevelyan estate colliery north-west of Longwitton, run by the Longwitton and Greenleighton Coal and Lime Co. and served by a tramway.	Northumberland	c. 1874–before 1897	Coal, Fireclay
Felkington Colliery One of north Northumberland's larger pits, working the Bulman seam at 19 fathoms near Duddo until 1906.	Northumberland	By 1874–1906	Coal
Elsdon Colliery A shaft and drift at Elsdon opened in the 1880s, which carried on as a licensed mine after nationalisation until 1972.	Northumberland	1880s–7 August 1972	Coal
Black Close Colliery An 18th-century colliery of the Duke of Portland at Ashington, opened in the 1750s with a waggonway to the Wansbeck, closed in 1846.	Northumberland	1754–1846	Coal
Eltringham Colliery A Tyne-bank colliery and brickworks that employed over three hundred in 1902 and ended as a drift of a handful of men.	Northumberland	1850s–30 June 1951	Coal, Fireclay
Doddington Colliery One of north Northumberland's larger inland pits, finally given up in 1904 when faults cut off its coal.	Northumberland	By 1855–January 1904	Coal
Little Chilton Colliery The small pit that started Ferryhill Station, with fifty cottages built for its men in 1845.	County Durham	1845-46–1865	Coal
Howburn Colliery A Morpeth pit flooded in 1896 by a forgotten shaft hidden under the course of the How Burn.	Northumberland	1880s–1929	Coal
Heddon Colliery A Heddon pit that in 1784 became the first in the coal trade to screen its coal mechanically.	Northumberland	By 1590–1 September 1933	Coal, Fireclay
Coppycrook Colliery A Shildon colliery of 1835 that stayed in the Spoor family's hands for more than half a century.	County Durham	1835-36–after 1940	Coal
Mickleybank Colliery A Prudhoe pit that stayed with the Bewick name for nearly a century, working with about a dozen men.	Northumberland	By 1860–13 October 1956	Coal, Fireclay
Wallshield Colliery A Greenhead pit worked by a handful of men on and off for more than eighty years, into the mid-1980s.	Northumberland	By 1900–1980s	Coal
Shilburnhaugh Colliery A tiny Falstone drift worked by two to ten men, whose valley now lies under Kielder Water.	Northumberland	By 1882–25 January 1928	Coal
Duddo Colliery A Duddo pit where five men drowned in 1857 when an old working broke in; none of them was ever recovered.	Northumberland	By 1814–1860s	Coal
Winlaton Colliery A medieval colliery that fuelled lime-burning at Windsor Castle and had women working underground in 1587.	Tyne and Wear	by 1366	Coal
Deckham Hall Colliery A Gateshead landsale pit given up in 1893 because none of its four seams could be worked at a profit.	Tyne and Wear	By 1874–December 1893	Coal
Ravensworth Park Drift A 1936 drift that raised gas coal under the National Coal Board until 1968, now beneath the Team Valley estate.	Tyne and Wear	1936–9 March 1968	Coal
Swalwell Garesfield Colliery A Swalwell pit where 124 miners were jailed in one batch during a 1909 dispute, backed by hundreds of villagers.	Tyne and Wear	1880s–August 1940	Coal, Fireclay
Lawson Main Colliery A Byker pit whose waggonway, relaid with cast iron rails in 1797, was probably the north's first iron railway.	Tyne and Wear	By the mid-1780s–1811	Coal
Bigges Main Colliery A 1784 Wallsend colliery that named a pit village, worked out once, reopened, and was finally drowned in 1857.	Tyne and Wear	1784–1857	Coal
Dewley Pits The pits near Black Callerton where the young George Stephenson worked, now scheduled as rare 18th-century mining earthworks.	Tyne and Wear	17th century–19th century	Coal
Benwell Colliery A Tyne colliery whose Main Coal burned for thirty years and whose old workings were drowned by the river in a flood.	Tyne and Wear	17th century–after 1938	Coal, Fireclay
Delaval Benwell Colliery A Scotswood pit and brickworks that made five million firebricks in 1900, with its drift mouth still on Scotswood Road.	Tyne and Wear	1850s–15 May 1901	Coal, Fireclay
Newfield Colliery, Willington A Bolckow, Vaughan coke and firebrick colliery on the Wear at Willington, with its own waggonway across the river.	County Durham	1841–after 1989	Coal, Fireclay
Lily Colliery A Dipton pit with its own tunnel through to Surtees Pit and a tramway to the Harelaw Waggonway.	County Durham	By 1877–19th century	Coal
Milkwellburn Colliery A Derwent valley colliery of four drifts and shafts, working from 1840 and still letting drivages to hewers in 1923.	County Durham	by 1840	Coal
New Tranwell Colliery A Morpeth pit that rose from 27 to 72 people in two years and then closed in 1924.	Northumberland	By 1918–July 1924	Coal
Beadnell Colliery A seaside pit beside Beadnell's lime quarry, drowned out in 1891 and abandoned as unprofitable in 1897.	Northumberland	Before 1886–6 June 1897	Coal
Forrestburn Colliery A Northumberland moorland pit that reached its thin Shilbottle seam through two limestones and over 300 feet of rock.	Northumberland	By the 1860s–18 August 1923	Coal
Chirm Colliery A Longhorsley pit with a Plough Pit and a Success Pit, working a two-foot coal from the 1860s to 1927.	Northumberland	By 1860–May 1927	Coal
Stonechester Colliery A three-man drift near Hamsterley, abandoned in 1912 and reopened on the same seam by 1929.	County Durham	By 1908–after 1929	Coal
Ferneybeds Colliery A Widdrington pit that lasted only fourteen years but employed 278 people at its height in 1914.	Northumberland	1910–1924	Coal
Hill Top Harvey Colliery A Langley Park drift that grew from six men in 1894 to 312 in 1910 on the coking coal of the Hutton seam.	County Durham	By 1883–1951 (Harvey Drift listed to 1953)	Coal
Goatstones Colliery A pit of four or five men near Simonburn, managed by the same uncertificated man from 1894 to 1930.	Northumberland	By 1882–16 May 1932	Coal
Colpitts Colliery A three-man Millstone Grit pit near Slaley, named after a farm that may itself be named after older 'coal pits'.	Northumberland	By 1894–1908/09	Coal
Lickar Colliery A deep pit by north Northumberland standards, worked from 1854 to feed local lime kilns and villages.	Northumberland	from 1854	Coal
Edgewell Colliery A Prudhoe brickworks pit whose 1889 advert wanted a hewer who was 'preferably single'.	Northumberland	Before 1850–November 1904	Coal, Fireclay
Wham Colliery A Butterknowle pit beside the Malt Shovel inn, abandoned three times before its last three men stopped in 1931.	County Durham	By 1859–29 August 1931	Coal, Fireclay
Sutty Row Colliery A farming family's hand-worked pit near Wark that was still raising coal with nine men in 1974.	Northumberland	By 1882–1970s	Coal, Fireclay
Horsley Wood Colliery A Wylam woodland pit, idle for decades, reopened by John Stoker and abandoned twice in the 1920s.	Northumberland	Early 19th century–10 December 1927	Coal
Hesleyside Colliery A North Tyne pit whose coal was sold for cooking and baking, worked in the 1930s by one man alone.	Northumberland	1902 (sinking)–after 1935	Coal
North Fenham Colliery A Fenham pit offered in 1889 to a 'small capitalist', its Low Main nearly worked out and the Beaumont still to win.	Tyne and Wear	1865–1892	Coal
New Copley Colliery A Cockfield coking-coal pit of over 200 men whose 1872 shaft accident killed three men lowered with the engine out of gear.	County Durham	from 1867	Coal
Thirlwall Colliery A Thirlwall Common pit revived after sixty years idle, whose coal drops still stand by the Carlisle line.	Northumberland	1834–20 February 1926	Coal
Biteabout Colliery A one-shaft pit near Lowick whose 72-year-old manager fell to his death down it in 1873.	Northumberland	By 1873–before 1902	Coal
Stiddle Hill Colliery A high-moorland pit near Bellingham at nearly 1,000 feet, whose stone chimney and blocked drift still stand.	Northumberland	c. 1873–August 1931	Coal
Chatton Colliery A tiny Cooper Eye pit worked by a handful of men from the 1840s until a fault ended it in 1903.	Northumberland	1840s–20 January 1903	Coal
Melkridge Colliery A Melkridge landsale pit that sold coal to farms and quarries, then grew to 67 men on the eve of its 1940 closure.	Northumberland	c. 1877–1940	Coal
West Hunwick Colliery A Hunwick pit that firebrick makers kept working for its Busty coal and fireclay into the 1930s.	County Durham	By 1873–1930s	Coal
Gatherick Colliery A small north Northumberland colliery with roots in the 1600s, whose 1819 shaft section survives.	Northumberland	Late 17th century–1865	Coal
Lowick Colliery A three-decade landsale pit by the Low stream near Lowick, its shafts now hollows in the fields.	Northumberland	1860s–by 1897	Coal
Jesmond Colliery An early 19th-century Newcastle colliery whose owner rationed his coal to the best in 1827, with a pit in Jesmond Vale sunk in 1829.	Tyne and Wear	1810s–by 1860	Coal
Hepscott Colliery A Morpeth-district pit whose 1865 coal and air shafts stood side by side, later worked from the Isabella Pit until 1924.	Northumberland	By 1865–1924/25	Coal
Hunwick Colliery A Bolckow Vaughan pit at Hunwick that employed 419 people in 1883, linked by waggonway across the Wear to Newfield.	County Durham	By 1846–20 August 1921	Coal
Hewas Water Mine The last of the Hewas mines at Sticker, a small 1919 tin working said to have sent out 24 tons of black tin a month until 1926.	Cornwall	1919–1926	Tin
Kit Tin Mine A minuscule Dartmoor tin mine with every part of a mine in one field, famed for its yellow diamond tin and a piskie's gold.	Devon	By 1799–1904	Tin
Kepwick Colliery A limeburner's one-shaft coal pit of 1762 on the Hambleton escarpment, dead within a year.	North Yorkshire	1762–1763	Coal
Oakwood Colliery (Pontrhydyfen) Sixty slants above Pontrhydyfen, from the copper company's ironstone levels of 1848 to the drift where a shot killed four men in 1920.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1848–1927	Coal, Iron
Old Castle Colliery (Tonna) A ten-man level below the Ivy Tower where two colliers died of fumes in 1913 and three rescue parties were overcome.	Neath Port Talbot	from c. 1865	Coal
Headless Cross Colliery A sixty-man Shotts pit that reached the National Coal Board in 1947 and was abandoned six years later.	North Lanarkshire	By 1873 (No. 1, Dymock)–1953 (No. 2 plan)	Coal
Lady Rashleigh Mine The Luxulyan Valley's other metal mine, retried in 1881 and left as an ivy-grown office in the woods.	Cornwall	By 1850s–1881	Tin
Trevarrack United A Lelant tin mine that sank an engine shaft 62 fathoms by 1873 for tin only in small quantities, and left a burrow in a hedge.	Cornwall	from 1871	Tin
Stormsdown Mine A retired stockbroker's private tin mine with the only Hathorn Davey differential engine in the West Country, which lost him £46,500 in six years.	Devon	Before 1840 (trial adits)–1909	Tin, Arsenic
Sortridge Consols The Horrabridge copper mine whose 1855 engine was started under a triumphal arch of evergreens and whose dumps built an airfield.	Devon	1853 (reopened)–1871	Copper, Tin, Arsenic