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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Achddu Colliery A Burry Port drift mine that briefly employed nearly two hundred before 1914 and gave its tip to a brickworks after it closed.	Carmarthenshire	1814–1917	Coal
Gwscwm Colliery A Pembrey colliery flooded out in 1863, revived to employ nearly four hundred in the 1920s, and ending its days digging fireclay rather than coal.	Carmarthenshire	c. 1818–After 1949	Coal, Fireclay
Cwm Capel Colliery A Burry Port colliery mined for nearly two centuries, whose tramway helped make the town's harbour and whose ventilation chimney still stands.	Carmarthenshire	1761–1952	Coal
New Pool Colliery A small Burry Port slant mine in the Cwmmawr seam that went from eighteen men in 1896 to 88 in 1918.	Carmarthenshire	Early 1880s–After 1935	Coal
Emily Colliery A Llansamlet level named after its founder's wife, ventilated by a furnace under a shallow upcast and sold off when its owner went bankrupt.	Swansea	c. 1847–c. 1895	Coal
New Lodge Colliery A Burry Port level opened by a militia colonel in the 1830s, later the fuel supply of a copper works and then of a brickworks.	Carmarthenshire	Early 1830s–After 1945	Coal, Fireclay
Crown Colliery A small Carmarthenshire colliery whose new shafts killed four sinkers in one accident in 1911, when a pump fell down the shaft on them.	Carmarthenshire	1877–After 1932	Coal
Guerets Colliery A Victorian Graigola pit at Clydach whose flooded workings were pumped out forty years later to ventilate the neighbouring Felinfran Colliery.	Swansea	Early 1850s (Ynyspenllwch slant)–1904	Coal
Birchgrove Colliery A Llansamlet pit with sister pits named Sisters and Brothers, where an inrush from old workings drowned four men in 1889.	Swansea	c. 1845–1932	Coal
Shildon Colliery A Victorian Shildon pit sunk through quicksand to the Busty and Brockwell seams, which closed in 1924 and reopened briefly for the Harvey.	County Durham	1869–15 March 1924	Coal
Staindrop Field House Drift A small Coal Board drift near Evenwood Gate where black damp killed two men in December 1958.	County Durham	1953–July 1967	Coal
New Shildon Colliery A Coal Board drift at Shildon that grew to more than 500 men within a decade of opening, with a licensed successor working into the 1980s.	County Durham	1880s–August 1965	Coal
Twizell Burn Drift A Grange Villa drift that all but stopped in the 1930s and was revived by the Coal Board, running on as Alma Drift until 1958.	County Durham	1843 or 1923–1 July 1948	Coal
Barlow Towneley Drift A Coal Board drift at Barlow that worked the Towneley seam alone for coking coal through the 1950s.	Tyne and Wear	1953–October 1961	Coal
Lilley Drift Joseph Cowen's drift at Rowlands Gill, 1877 to 1957, whose fireclay made the 'Lily' bricks of the works beside it.	Tyne and Wear	1877–6 January 1957	Coal, Fireclay
Argoed Colliery A Sirhowy valley house-coal level where, in 1842, boys were taken underground at four or five years old.	Caerphilly	from Before 1840	Coal
Bushcliffe Colliery A 1920s pit sunk only 101 feet to the Woodmoor seam, whose capped shafts lie in Newmillerdam Country Park.	West Yorkshire	1923/24–1968	Coal
Twyn Gwyn Colliery A level beside Cwmdows at Newbridge whose company took over Cwmdows; a nearly buried mouth survived in 2005.	Caerphilly	from By 1843	Coal
Wernffraith Colliery An eighteenth-century colliery near Neath Abbey where firedamp killed its owner in 1758 and seventeen miners in 1770.	Neath Port Talbot	from Mid 18th century	Coal
Greencroft Tower Colliery A north-west Durham colliery on the Greencroft estate, worked from its first borings in 1838 until closure as a drift in 1957.	County Durham	1838–July 1957	Coal
Glyndyle Graigola Colliery A 1920s-30s Trebanos level known locally as Five Boys, worked by a handful of men.	Neath Port Talbot	1925–1936 (Graigola abandoned)	Coal
Pontlash Colliery An Amman Valley anthracite pit whose owners walked away and handed it back to the landlord after a 1904 lockout over pay rates.	Carmarthenshire	c. 1890–1904–1908	Coal, Anthracite
Bolgoed Colliery A Pontardulais pit sold off piece by piece in 1878, whose new shaft took three years to find coal and lasted one.	Swansea	By 1878–1894	Coal
Lower Graigola Colliery A Clydach colliery that worked through the First World War with sixty men and gave up the Graigola seam in 1926.	Swansea	By 1912–April 1926	Coal
Gelli Nedd Colliery A tiny Pontardawe level, never more than seventeen men, where a young collier died after being run down by trams in 1906.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1893–After 1911	Coal
South Derwent Colliery An Annfield Plain colliery whose seams, once thought fit only for the household, made its name as a gas coal.	County Durham	1860s–27 May 1933	Coal
Tarnhouse Colliery The Earl of Carlisle's fell colliery whose coal went down to Brampton by the line that became the Brampton Railway.	Cumbria	from By 1769 (boring 1628)	Coal
Crystallwell Colliery A tiny Coanwood drift, tied to its bigger neighbour by an inclined plane, that was still being worked by five men after the Second World War.	Northumberland	By 1915–April 1947	Coal
Marshall Green Colliery A Wear valley pit that dug as much fireclay and ganister as coal, for brick and refractory makers, for over a century.	County Durham	1830–1936 or 1955	Coal, Fireclay, Ganister
Twizell Colliery A Joicey pit near Pelton, on ground where coal was bored for as early as 1739, that closed in 1938.	County Durham	1844 (sunk 1843–1844)–4 August 1938	Coal
Westholme Colliery A Teesdale pit that lasted only four years, though its miners' cottages at South Cleatlam still stand.	County Durham	1910 (sinking)–22 August 1914	Coal
Teesside Colliery A tiny Teesdale pit of the 1920s and 1930s that dwindled from 33 men to seven before it closed.	County Durham	By 1923–31 August 1938	Coal
East Coanwood Colliery Coanwood's eastern twin, opened in 1865 and joined to it by a tramway, whose remains still survive.	Northumberland	from 1865	Coal
Ravensworth Shop Colliery A Team colliery at Lamesley that was working by 1726 and still employed 550 when it closed in 1962.	Tyne and Wear	By 1726 (Allerdean)–23 February 1962	Coal
St Anthony's Colliery An 18th-century Tyneside colliery whose Restoration Pit reached the Low Main at over 800 feet.	Tyne and Wear	Before 1769–1934 (seams abandoned)	Coal
Phoenix Drift A short-lived National Coal Board drift near Greenside that employed over 200 in the late 1950s.	Tyne and Wear	By 1954–August 1964	Coal
Harbour House Drift A 1930s drift at Low Cocken that briefly employed over 350 before it closed in the late 1950s.	County Durham	1938–April 1957 or April 1958	Coal
Stanley Cottage Drift A National Coal Board drift near Crook, opened in 1955 and closed in 1968 with the loss of 156 jobs.	County Durham	1955–17 May 1968	Coal
Whittonstall Drift A Consett Iron Company drift that closed twice, in 1925 and the 1940s, and was revived by the National Coal Board until 1966.	Northumberland	1907–25 November 1966	Coal
Hedley Colliery The upper-seam pit of the South Moor collieries, which with its Charley Pit employed over 1,100 in 1925.	County Durham	By 1883–After 1958	Coal
North Tees Colliery A tiny Teesdale pit in the Yoredale coals, where two men died of foul air in 1941.	County Durham	1920s–January 1966	Coal
Metal Bridge Drift A post-war National Coal Board drift near Ferryhill that was still taking on men in the late 1970s, a year before it closed.	County Durham	1954–July 1978	Coal
Blackburn Fell Drift A 1937 drift on Blackburn Fell whose ramp and rails can still be seen.	Tyne and Wear	July 1937–February 1979	Coal
Adventure Pit A Rainton pit sunk in 1816 that was abandoned, revived in 1911 and lasted until 1978.	County Durham	1817 (sunk 1816–1817)–21 July 1978	Coal
Greenside Colliery Greenside's own pit, once the largest in the district, whose lodge banner still leads the village to the Durham Miners' Gala.	Tyne and Wear	1795–1796 (A Pit sunk)–23 July 1966	Coal
Birkby Colliery A Maryport-area colliery and drift that employed 250 at nationalisation and was abandoned three years later.	Cumbria	1910s–March 1950	Coal
Morwood Colliery A tiny pit near Bardon Mill that the National Coal Board grew to 136 men before closing it in 1960.	Northumberland	1871–1880 (earlier workings)–1 July 1960	Coal
Nelson Colliery A short-lived Cramlington pit of 1934-58 that employed nearly 500 at its peak.	Northumberland	1934–4 January 1958	Coal
Horton Grange Colliery A 1930s colliery on the old Bebside take near Blyth, whose pithead baths still stand.	Northumberland	1934–26 January 1962	Coal
North Seaton Colliery A North Seaton colliery that employed 1,180 in 1921 and whose cleared site is marked by a commemorative coal tub.	Northumberland	1859–20 January 1961	Coal
West Shieldrow Colliery A Stanley colliery that worked eleven seams for coking and gas coal and employed over 400 before closing in 1934.	County Durham	By 1878–10 December 1934	Coal
Whickham Colliery A small Whickham colliery of the Snowball family, raising coal and fireclay, swallowed up by Axwell Park in the 1890s.	Tyne and Wear	By 1855–1887 (Stone Coal abandoned)	Coal
Ellenbank Colliery A wartime mine near Maryport that lasted only eight years, five of them under the National Coal Board.	Cumbria	1944 (development)–6 August 1952	Coal
Butterknowle Colliery A pit-village colliery recorded in 1660, where nearly 700 worked in the 1890s and the miners built a hall seating 450.	County Durham	By 1660–1934 (Hutton abandoned)	Coal
Broom Park Colliery A Deerness valley colliery that employed over 600 in 1894, burned in 1904, and is now a picnic site.	County Durham	1870 (sinking)–1905	Coal
Talkin Colliery One of the Earl of Carlisle's fell-top pits east of Brampton, at work by 1769, whose plans go back to about 1799.	Cumbria	By 1769–1872	Coal
Dearham Colliery The pits around Dearham near Maryport, where a winding rope broke in 1844 and killed two men and three boys.	Cumbria	By 1837–1894	Coal
Bullgill Colliery A Maryport-area colliery employing nearly 300 in 1905, whose closure in 1910 was mourned in a West Cumbrian dialect poem.	Cumbria	1859 (Ellen Pit)–10 September 1910	Coal
Brasside Colliery A Durham colliery worked twice: by the Earl of Durham in the Hutton until 1883, and again for two years in the 1920s.	County Durham	By 1849–1883	Coal
Old Durham Colliery Lord Londonderry's pit beside the Wear just outside Durham, whose hewers struck in 1851 against wedging the coal down instead of blasting it.	County Durham	1849 (sunk 1848)–1883	Coal
Elvet Colliery A landsale pit on the southern edge of Durham city, where coal was being bored for in 1740 and the last seam was given up in 1908.	County Durham	18th century–25 January 1908	Coal
Coanwood Colliery A South Tyne valley colliery beside Coanwood station, whose pits drowned in 1894 when a neighbouring colliery stopped its pumps.	Northumberland	By 1792 (early working)–July 1931	Coal
Fir Tree Colliery A small interwar colliery near Crook that passed through four owners in twenty years and ended worked together with its neighbour Woodifield.	County Durham	By 1921–After 1940	Coal
Seaforth Colliery A New Cumnock pit of 1940-53 named after its manager's house, which took its name from the Highland earldom of Seaforth.	East Ayrshire	1940–1953	Coal
Pittington Colliery Lady Londonderry's colliery at Pittington, whose hewers struck in 1851 against wedging the coal down instead of blasting it.	County Durham	1820 (sinking began)–1891	Coal
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