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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
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
Shire Moor Colliery The Tynemouth common pit where the first electric coal-cutter was tried in 1902.	Tyne and Wear	By 1764–1915	Coal
Farnacres Colliery A pit drowned in its first months when the shaft broke into forgotten old workings.	Tyne and Wear	from 1840	Coal, Fireclay
Tin Mill Colliery The Consett Iron Company's own pit beside its works, named after the old tin plate mill.	County Durham	By 1856–1910	Coal, Fireclay
Kirkness Colliery A parrot-coal pit that flooded in 1892 and became the loading point for Westfield's opencast.	Fife	1840s–c. 1893	Coal
Penshaw Colliery A Wearside colliery of the Lambton and Londonderry era whose fan house still stands as two homes.	County Durham	1792 (Lambton Pit)–c. 1879	Coal
St Lawrence Colliery A Newcastle pit sunk to the Low Main in eight months and an early user of cages and square tubs.	Tyne and Wear	from 1833	Coal
Wideopen Colliery A pit of 1825 that lit its screens with its own gas and sold its coal as 'Perkins' Wallsend'.	Tyne and Wear	from 1825 (first coal May 1827)	Coal
Charmborough Colliery Sunk in the depths of the 1930s slump, the first Somerset pit the Coal Board closed.	Somerset	1932–August 1947	Coal
Princes Street Drift One of the small drifts that kept coal coming at Shildon into the late 1950s.	County Durham	1939–November 1958	Coal
Balmore Colliery A Kelvin valley colliery with its own branch off the little Kelvin Valley Railway.	East Dunbartonshire	1940–April 1960	Coal
Boglea Colliery A Greengairs colliery whose closure in 1962 was still being argued over when its men's new pit closed in 1968.	North Lanarkshire	By 1899–March 1962	Coal, Ironstone
Bardon Mill Colliery A wartime drift that mined coal from beneath the River Tyne for thirty years.	Northumberland	1940 (drift begun 1938)–24 November 1973	Coal, Fireclay
Etherley Dene Colliery A small Bishop Auckland drift whose valley had been worked for a century, from the 'Dabble Ducks' pit of 1856 to 1955.	County Durham	1850 (first drift)–September 1955	Coal
Ramshaw Colliery A small household-coal colliery of the Gaunless valley, one of the last pits around West Auckland.	County Durham	1928–October 1959	Coal
Stocksbridge Colliery A steelworks' own colliery, driven into the hill above Samuel Fox's mill to feed its coke ovens.	South Yorkshire	1861–April 1948	Coal, Fireclay, Ganister
Duntilland Colliery A Coltness ironstone-and-coal pit on the moor by Salsburgh, worked in thin seams for some eighty years.	North Lanarkshire	1865–April 1951	Coal, Ironstone
Brynteg Colliery A Dulais Valley anthracite drift that chased one seam for two miles until the faults beat it.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1878–30 October 1954	Coal
Reservoir Colliery A canal-head pit whose bright house coal was shipped by barge to the Oxford colleges and London.	Derbyshire	1875–1948	Coal
Toftshaw Moor Colliery A family-run Bradford pit that built pithead baths in 1934, ahead of many far larger collieries.	West Yorkshire	1913–August 1950	Coal
Talyclyn Colliery A small Carmarthenshire colliery and brickworks where five colliers were fined in 1945 for cutting too little coal.	Carmarthenshire	1870–6 February 1952	Coal, Fireclay
Summersales Colliery Pemberton's last pit, a wet little colliery that worked on for twenty years after the main one closed.	Greater Manchester	1938–1966	Coal
Birchmoor Colliery A north Warwickshire pit, known as Cockspur, whose miners founded the village's working men's club in 1910.	Warwickshire	1860–1927	Coal
Glasshouse Colliery A Chesterton colliery named after an eighteenth-century glasshouse, worked by footrails into the 1960s.	Staffordshire	c.1855–December 1960	Coal, Ironstone
Thornton Colliery One of Fife's few surviving beam-engine houses, possibly the engine Lord Balgonie fitted up in 1785.	Fife	By 1785–1845	Coal
Birch Coppice Colliery A Warwickshire pit worked for over a century, home to the NCB's smokeless-fuel pilot plant, closed in 1986 by a fault.	Warwickshire	c.1850–1986	Coal
Pencaitland Colliery A small East Lothian pit served by its own platform on the Gifford and Garvald Light Railway.	East Lothian	1903–1944	Coal
Houghall Colliery A Durham pit whose village outlived it by seventy years as an aged miners' colony.	County Durham	1841–1884	Coal
Grimebridge Colliery A hard-coal Rossendale pit of 1851, reopened by its own colliers and worked until 1996.	Lancashire	1851–November 1963	Coal
Gomersal Colliery A hand-got Yorkshire pit closed for fear of flooding after Lofthouse, now part of Oakwell Hall's park.	West Yorkshire	1916–June 1973	Coal
Swadlincote Colliery A Swadlincote pit of 1852 that set a national productivity record three years before it closed.	Derbyshire	1852–February 1965	Coal
Nantewlaeth Colliery A deep upper Afan valley pit with its own miners' halt, closed within two years of nationalisation.	Neath Port Talbot	1915–November 1948	Coal
Hawkins Colliery A family pit at Cheslyn Hay for nearly a century, where a 1900 cage accident sent its winder to trial.	Staffordshire	c. 1840–April 1960	Coal, Ironstone
Bretby Colliery The Earl of Carnarvon's colliery at Newhall Park, sold in the early 1920s to help pay for the search for Tutankhamun's tomb, and worked for 86 years until 1962.	Derbyshire	1872–May 1962	Coal, Fireclay
Newmillerdam Colliery A small Wakefield drift mine whose men were promised jobs at a new drift when it closed in 1981.	West Yorkshire	1929–1981	Coal
New Monckton Colliery A six-shaft Royston giant with its own coke works, closed on economic grounds in 1966.	West Yorkshire	1874–3 December 1966	Coal
Ramcroft Colliery A wartime pit mothballed for ten years, reopened for the next war, and struck in 1957 over the canteen tea.	Derbyshire	1916 (reopened 1939)–October 1966	Coal
Shirland Colliery A Derbyshire pit the South Yorkshire miners' union bought in 1875, worked for a century until 1965.	Derbyshire	1864–May 1965	Coal
Arnghyll Colliery A Durham coking-coal drift that opened and shut repeatedly over forty years.	County Durham	By 1915–5 May 1951	Coal
Stagshaw Bank Colliery A tiny Tynedale landsale pit in the limestone coal that only became a Coal Board mine in 1953.	Northumberland	By 1882–4 October 1958	Coal
Barmoor Colliery A Morpeth landsale pit that changed hands five times and still outlasted most of its neighbours.	Northumberland	By 1882–26 October 1962	Coal, Fireclay
Nettlesworth Colliery A Victorian pit that became a pumping station, then lent its name to a drift that worked into the 1970s.	County Durham	1861–27 September 1974	Coal
Crookhall Colliery The pit that made Crookhall village, later a coking-coal mine for the Consett ironworks.	County Durham	1839–9 November 1963	Coal, Fireclay
Lambley Colliery A small pit in a remote Northumberland coalfield that the Coal Board grew to nearly two hundred men.	Northumberland	By 1850–16 August 1958	Coal
Tirherbert Colliery A Hirwaun level west of Tower whose fan-house ruin was recorded on Hirwaun Common in 2009.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1914–24 December 1958	Coal
Islwyn Level A sixty-year family level in the Sirhowy valley that grew from seven men to seventy.	Caerphilly	1888–December 1948	Coal
Rockwood Colliery A Taffs Well drift reopened on the eve of the war and worked by tunnels and diesel trains into the 1960s.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1905 (reopened 1937)–May 1963	Coal
Glyntillery Colliery The first South Wales colliery to run electric locomotives underground.	Torfaen	c. 1913–January 1976	Coal
Thinacres Mine A small Overwood company drift on ground first mined in the 1870s, worked into the 1960s.	South Lanarkshire	1938 (some accounts 1939)–May 1963	Coal
Newfield Colliery A wartime Kenneth family pit that the Coal Board turned into a surface mine.	South Ayrshire	1940 (reopened 1948)–August 1956	Coal
Hindsward Colliery A Cumnock pit opened three times in a century, last by a private firm that kept it going into the 1980s.	East Ayrshire	1880–1988	Coal
Overtown Colliery A Coltness pit closed so the Coal Board could sink its shafts another 125 metres for coking coal.	North Lanarkshire	1931 (earlier pits by 1862)–January 1968	Coal
Cronberry Moor Colliery A Cronberry pit with a washer that cleaned its neighbours' coal and a morphia scheme for its injured.	East Ayrshire	c. 1920–March 1957	Coal
Coatspark Colliery A 1930s 'ingoing eye' that revived the oldest way of winning coal at Cambuslang.	South Lanarkshire	By 1933–May 1958	Coal
Woodside Colliery A small Dalserf pit that lasted more than a century, from 1848 into the Coal Board years.	South Lanarkshire	1848–July 1955	Coal
Lochend Colliery A Lanarkshire pit whose cone-topped bing, 'The Mexican's Hat', is a landmark and a scheduled monument.	North Lanarkshire	c. 1880–December 1948	Coal
Forthbank Colliery A Coal Board mine planned to last 24 years that grew to nearly a thousand men and closed after nine.	Clackmannanshire	1892 (reopened 1947)–January 1958	Coal
Melloch Colliery A wartime reopening of an old Ochils working, run as an outpost of Tillicoultry mine.	Clackmannanshire	c. 1850 (reopened 1939)–1948	Coal
Avonbraes Colliery A tiny post-war drift whose coal crossed the Avon Water by bridge and climbed out of the gorge by incline.	South Lanarkshire	1949 (production 1952)–May 1965	Coal
Enterkine Colliery Annbank's big pit, where seven men and boys died in a firedamp explosion in 1898.	South Ayrshire	1878–November 1959 (abandoned 1960)	Coal, Fireclay
Lugar Mine A wartime drift mine opened by the Bairds combine at the old ironworks village of Lugar.	East Ayrshire	1942–December 1953 (abandoned 1954)	Coal
Bourtreehill Colliery An Ayrshire colliery that was as much a pottery, famous for its white enamelled sinks.	North Ayrshire	By 1872–1924	Coal, Fireclay
Meadowmill Mine A short-lived Coal Board drift on an old washer site, now a dry ski slope.	East Lothian	1952 (production 1953)–June 1960 (abandoned December 1962)	Coal
Isle of Canty Colliery The Alloa Coal Company's last new mine, and the first pit the National Coal Board ever closed.	Fife	1939–1948 (abandoned 1949)	Coal
Bellyford Mine An old Ormiston pit brought back by the Coal Board, which took in the men of its neighbour Limeylands.	East Lothian	1866 (reopened 1949)–November 1961 (abandoned December 1962)	Coal
Torry Mine A Coal Board drift built to leave no mark on the countryside, its coal sent through tunnels to Valleyfield.	Fife	1951 (production 1953)–June 1965	Coal
Sorn Mine A post-war Coal Board drift that was meant to last 25 years and worked for thirty.	East Ayrshire	1952 (production 1953)–April 1983	Coal