Healey Lane Colliery

Overview

An Ossett colliery sunk in 1876-77 by Hinchcliffe, Kilner and Company, whose partner Charles Kilner ended as a bankrupt colliery weighman; worked as Heeley Lane until 1899.

History

Healey Lane Colliery, listed also as Heeley Lane, worked coal in the Haigh Moor seams at Ossett, west of Wakefield, from 1876 to 1899. Its shafts were sunk in 1876 and 1877 by Charles Kilner and Henry Slater, trading as Hinchcliffe, Kilner and Company. The partnership was dissolved in June 1886. Kilner was declared bankrupt in June 1888, by which time he lived on the Green at Ossett and was working as a colliery weighman and book-keeper.

The colliery went on working, listed from 1890 as Heeley Lane, until 1899. Its Top and Low Haigh Moor workings were recorded as abandoned on 6 December 1900.

Geology

West Yorkshire coal measures: the Top and Low Haigh Moor seams.

Workings

Shafts sunk in 1876-77 to the Haigh Moor.

Closure

Listed to 1899; the Top and Low Haigh Moor workings were abandoned on 6 December 1900.

What remains

Unknown.

Recorded claims

Individual factual claims, each attached to the source(s) that support it below. Where sources disagree, both are kept.

• Healey Lane Colliery was sunk in 1876 and 1877 by Hinchcliffe, Kilner and Company. ^1,2
• The partnership of Charles Kilner and Henry Slater was dissolved in June 1886, and Kilner was declared bankrupt in June 1888. ²
• The colliery was listed as Heeley Lane from 1890 to 1899. ¹
• Its Top and Low Haigh Moor workings were abandoned on 6 December 1900. ³

Sources

1. (secondary) Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854 onwards (H) - Northern Mine Research Society — Northern Mine Research Society
2. (secondary) Ossett coal mining (Ossett - the history of a Yorkshire town) — ossett.net
3. (primary) BGS mine plan: HEALEY LANE, Top and Low Haigh Moor, abandoned 6 December 1900 — British Geological Survey / Mining Remediation Authority

Record created: 24 October 2026 · Last researched: 24 October 2026