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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
B Winning Colliery The Blackwell Colliery Company's second pit, at Hilcote, a village once itself called B Winning.	Derbyshire	1873–1874 (sinking)–November 1964	Coal
Baads Colliery The oil company's coal mine: Baads No. 42 fed the Pumpherston retorts from 1908 and died with the shale industry in 1962, four hundred men hearing of it at a meeting.	West Lothian	About 1908–1962	Coal
Babbington Colliery The mine that took Nottinghamshire from small shallow pits into large-scale deep coal mining, worked continuously for 145 years before becoming one of the county's biggest loss-makers.	Nottinghamshire	1841-42–1986	Coal
Bachelor's Hall Tin Mine A Dartmoor tin mine near Princetown found in the 1790s when the Dock leat was cut, worked by three waterwheels until 1862.	Devon	1795–1862	Tin
Backworth Colliery Nine shafts over 165 years, ending with the deepest pit in the Northumberland coalfield and one of the last steam-worked colliery railways in Britain.	Tyne and Wear	1818–1980	Coal, Fireclay
Baddesley Colliery An engineer specified a brick casing around the underground boiler, the manager left it out, and thirty-two men died — the coroner's jury called it an error of judgement	Warwickshire	From May 1850–1989	Coal
Bagalow Quarry Men lowered down a sea cliff on ropes, hauled by a whim that a donkey walked round.	Cornwall	1834–early 20th century	Slate, Limestone
Bage Mine A Derbyshire lead mine internationally known among mineralogists as the type locality of the rare lead minerals matlockite and phosgenite.	Derbyshire	working by 1752–1907	Lead
Baggeridge Colliery The last deep mine ever sunk in the Black Country — and the one whose closure ended three centuries of mining there for good	West Midlands	From 1899 (sinking)–2 March 1968	Coal
Baglan Hall Colliery A colliery that changed its name three times in ten years and outlived two bankrupt companies before its abandonment.	Neath Port Talbot	1861–November 1887	Coal
Bagtor Mine For all its ambition -- a new 60-foot waterwheel, three shafts, fresh adits -- Bagtor's 1860s revival yielded just 15 tons of tin in its entire working life.	Devon	1851–1866	Tin, Copper
Bagworth Colliery The last coal mine in Leicestershire, and the one whose subsidence brought down the village church — a medieval tower and all — in 1968.	Leicestershire	1828–February 1991	Coal
Bailey Hill Colliery A short-lived Mold pit known mostly through the local paper: a tramp on its boilers, its waste in the brook and a thirteen-week strike.	Flintshire	c.1873–1893	Coal
Bailliesmuir Colliery A Coltness mine where a shot that hung fire killed the brusher who went back to the face too soon.	North Lanarkshire	by 1894	Coal
Balbardie Colliery Bathgate's long-lived gas-coal and blackband colliery, whose boilers blew up in 1895.	West Lothian	1850s–by 1946	Coal, Ironstone
Balbirnie Colliery An eighteenth-century laird-geologist's drainage level that sold half a million tons of Fife coal in fifty years.	Fife	from 1600s	Coal
Balgonie Colliery A Fife pit named for its owner's initials, worked for coal, clay and oil shale together, whose own bricks are built into a bridge beside the site.	Fife	1883–1885–1960	Coal, Brick Clay, Mudstone
Ballachulish Slate Quarries Once called the Slate Capital of Scotland; produced over half the country's domestic slate output at its peak	Highland	1693–1955	Slate
Ballacorkish Mine Ballacorkish was already an old, exhausted, abandoned working by 1819 — and only became one of the Isle of Man's more successful 19th-century mines because a new Victorian company chose to look again at ground an earlier generation of miners had already given up on.	Isle of Man	Before 1819–1895	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Ochre
Balleswidden Mine Once St Just's biggest mine, it suffered a collapse in 1847 so large that its effects at surface resembled a minor earthquake, though no one was hurt.	Cornwall	1507 (earliest record)–1873 or 1875	Tin, Copper
Ballidon Quarry A working limestone quarry that has taken the head of a dale, beside a deserted medieval village and its lone Anglo-Norman church.	Derbyshire	Post-medieval–Still active	Limestone
Ballochmyle Colliery A small Auchinleck pit whose name is now attached to a quarry, a viaduct and a Burns poem — and almost never to the colliery.	East Ayrshire	from Working by 1880	Coal
Ballycastle Coal Mines Worked along dramatic sea cliffs for centuries; the last commercial coal extraction anywhere in Northern Ireland	County Antrim	16th century (earliest working)–1967 (Craigfad Mine, final closure)	Coal
Balmore Colliery A Kelvin valley colliery with its own branch off the little Kelvin Valley Railway.	East Dunbartonshire	1940–April 1960	Coal
Balquhatstone Colliery A Slamannan colliery of the 1850s to 1905 whose workforce fell from 377 to 58 in its last eleven years.	Falkirk	By 1855–1905	Coal
Bamfurlong Colliery A four-pit Wigan colliery whose new shafts had to be tubbed with cast iron against quicksand, and where sixteen men and boys suffocated after a paraffin lamp set an engine house alight.	Greater Manchester	By 1861–1936	Coal, Cannel Coal
Bampfylde Mine A Devon copper mine on the River Mole with a rare surviving late-Victorian ore-processing complex, including the remains of at least five waterwheel pits.	Devon	c.1420-1530 (medieval)–1885	Copper, Iron, Manganese
Ban Garth Mine An Eskdale haematite opencast of the 1840s to 1870s whose workings cut through an older upland landscape of cairnfields and shielings.	Cumbria	1845–1874	Iron
Bank Hall Colliery Closed not because the coal ran out but because the cutter picks kept striking pyrites nodules in the coal and sparking firedamp ignitions.	Lancashire	1869–17 April 1971	Coal
Bank Wood Quarry Three men, three years and 153 tons of slate in total — then the 1905 list returns it with nobody employed and the one word abandoned.	Cumbria	1902–by 1905	Slate
Bankend Colliery A 1910 Medical Officer of Health survey of miners' housing recorded the row of company-owned houses at Bankend in unflinching physical detail -- stone-built, no damp course, unventilated wood floors, a pail privy per house -- a rare surviving snapshot of what a Lanarkshire mining row actually offered by way of shelter.	South Lanarkshire	From 1857–1920s	Coal
Banknock Colliery A Stirlingshire colliery whose spoil heaps outlived it by fifty years as a brickworks' raw material.	Falkirk	By 1869–c. 1931	Coal
Bankpark Colliery A Tranent pit beside a fireclay works, where a winding rope rotted from inside broke in 1913 and dropped two men 46 fathoms.	East Lothian	By 1852–1923	Coal
Banks Slate Quarry, Chapel Stile A family green-slate mine above Chapel Stile with never more than eight men, whose owner drilled alone at the foot of a thirty-foot chamber in 1905 and did not come out.	Cumbria	By 1882–after 1922	Slate
Bankton Colliery It stopped producing coal in 1927 and went on employing people for another thirty years, because somebody had to keep pumping the water out.	East Lothian	From 1905–About 1927	Coal
Bannockburn Colliery A pit that grew a farming hamlet into a 3,000-strong mining community within thirty years, and left behind an award-winning colliery silver band.	Stirling	1894–1953 (drift mine to 1963)	Coal
Bantycock Quarry Some of the purest gypsum on earth, blasted gently enough to lift the ground rather than shatter it, and a stand-in for Mars for a space agency drill.	Nottinghamshire	1982–Still active	Gypsum
Banwaun Colliery Its 1901 closure is confirmed independently by two separate NMRS accounts under two slightly different spellings of its name.	Merthyr Tydfil	Before 1878–November 1901	Coal
Bar Brook Lead Mill A second, separate slag mill was later built 300 metres downstream purely to rework this mill's own waste slag -- extracting lead the original smelting process had missed.	Derbyshire	1618–around 1770	Lead
Barbara Pit, Kirkland Kirkland's Barbara Pit, seventeen men raising hematite for three years in the 1920s before the West Cumberland ore field's collapse closed it in 1926.	Cumbria	1923–31 March 1926	Iron
Barbauchlaw Colliery An Armadale mine that raised steam coal and fireclay, with a brickworks alongside.	West Lothian	1900 (earlier pits by 1856)–February 1952 (abandoned 1953)	Coal, Fireclay
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
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
Bardsley Colliery The Bardsley Colliery Company's pits near Ashton-under-Lyne, working thin fiery seams at 470 yards, where an explosion killed 53 in 1858.	Greater Manchester	By 1858–after 1880	Coal
Bardykes Colliery Sunk on the site of a former infectious disease hospital, the colliery was known locally as the 'Spittal Colliery' for that reason.	South Lanarkshire	1874–1962	Coal
Barglachan Colliery A William Baird and Company pit near Auchinleck, worked from the 1840s to the 1920s and tied to the Lugar Iron Works by its own mineral railway.	East Ayrshire	By 1846–c. 1924	Coal
Bargoed Colliery Wound 4,020 tons in a single day in 1909 — a world record — from three shafts on a site its own engineers thought too narrow for the job.	Caerphilly	1901–4 June 1977	Coal
Barlborough Colliery A Staveley company pit where two datallers in their late sixties died together building a pack at a road junction.	Derbyshire	By 1878–c. 1928	Coal
Barley Hall Colliery The Newton, Chambers shaft at Barley Hall, Thorncliffe's upcast from 1914, which became a colliery of its own when Thorncliffe closed in 1955.	South Yorkshire	June 1886 (sinking)–31 May 1974	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
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
Barnack Quarries One of Britain's more unlikely nature reserves — its wildflower-carpeted hummocks are entirely the spoil of a medieval quarry that built two cathedrals, before Peterborough Abbey's monks eventually sold off nearly everything worth digging.	Cambridgeshire	Roman period–c. 1500 (stone exhausted)	Limestone
Barnbow Pit The last deep mine sunk in the Garforth coalfield, built all-electric in 1924 on the site of the Barnbow shell-filling factory and closed by the owners' failure in 1930.	West Yorkshire	June 1925–30 June 1930	Coal
Barnburgh Main Colliery Eighteen men were trapped when the floor itself rose up toward the roof in 1942 — four died, and it took six days to recover the last two bodies.	South Yorkshire	1911 (sinking)–16 June 1989	Coal
Barncluith Colliery A Hamilton pit where two miners riding an empty rake against the rules were killed when it derailed and brought down the roof.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1880–1900	Coal
Barnsley Main Colliery The Dearne was once full of pitheads like this one; these are the only ones left, and the winder is reported to be still inside.	South Yorkshire	1892–1991	Coal
Barnsmuir Colliery A small Slamannan pit that outlasted most of its district, still worked by a handful of men in the 1950s.	Falkirk	By 1880–c. 1955	Coal
Baron's Quay Mine One of four abandoned Northwich rock salt mines covered by a 2004-2007 stabilisation programme.	Cheshire	to 19th century	Salt
Barony Colliery Only two headgears of this exact steel-frame design were ever built in Britain — and this is the only one still standing	East Ayrshire	From 1907 (sinking)–17 February 1989	Coal
Barrasford Quarry The only survivor of all the collieries, works and quarries opened along the Border Counties Railway, still cutting the type sill of British geology.	Northumberland	After 1859–Still active	Whinstone, Limestone
Barrington Chalk Pit The cement works here grew out of one of the era's most notorious banking frauds — Farrow's Bank inflated its unfinished, barely-funded Dreadnought Cement venture to a paper value of £780,000 before the bank collapsed in 1920.	Cambridgeshire	1914–10 November 2008	Chalk
Barrow Colliery, Bryncethin Steam-coal pits sunk near Bryncethin by the Barrow-in-Furness Hematite Steel Co. among older house-coal levels, pictured about 1912.	Bridgend	1870–1921	Coal
Barrow Colliery, Worsbrough A Furness steel company's Yorkshire pit that worked 109 years, saw seven men killed in a cage in 1907, and was where Scargill turned back from a picket line in 1985.	South Yorkshire	1873 or 1875 (sinking)–May 1985	Coal
Barrow Mine Its Sand Vein was full of quartz that could run like sand and fill the workings within minutes, and its pale spoil fan on Barrow is said never quite to stop moving.	Cumbria	By the 1680s–1889	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Barrowmouth Gypsum and Alabaster Mine Alabaster for ornaments and pottery moulds, brought up a cliff by packhorse; the only gypsum and alabaster mine of its age in north-west England.	Cumbria	By 1794–1908	Gypsum
Barrwood Colliery A Kilsyth pit that burned for days in 1878 and had to be flooded with seventeen men still inside.	North Lanarkshire	ended by 1912	Coal, Ironstone
Bartonholm Colliery An Eglinton Iron Company pit at Irvine where the man whose job was to light the ventilation furnace walked into the firedamp his neglect had let build up.	North Ayrshire	By 1871–1920	Coal
Basset and Grylls Mine A Wendron tin mine where a pond of dressing-floor slimes fell through into the workings in 1858, and whose engine house was rebuilt away from the hole.	Cornwall	1845–1938	Tin
Bates Colliery The first pit whose reprieve by an independent review tribunal the National Coal Board simply refused to accept.	Northumberland	1930s–1986	Coal
Bathville Colliery Bought for £10,000 in 1859 by a Glasgow coalmaster who put a brickworks on it within months — because the fireclay coming up with the coal was worth as much as the coal.	West Lothian	By 1859–after 1902	Coal, Fireclay
Bayldon Colliery One of three small Melkridge Coal Company workings in the South Tyne valley, open only for a few years in the 1930s.	Northumberland	By 1935–by 1938	Coal
Bayton Colliery A hop-drying coal too sulphurous for anything else, sent out on an aerial ropeway a mile and a half long	Worcestershire	by the 18th century	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
Beamish Colliery Two hundred and three years from the first sinking in 1763 to closure in 1966, and the pit around which the Joicey coal empire was built.	County Durham	1763–1966	Coal
Beans and Bacon Mine A scheduled Bonsall Moor lead mine notable for preserving nearly every rock-breaking method used across the district's mining history within a single small site.	Derbyshire	By 1740–1925	Lead
Bearpark Colliery A coking-coal pit for a hundred and twelve years, whose owners renamed themselves twice after the coke rather than the coal.	County Durham	1872–1984	Coal, Fireclay
Beaufort Iron Works The village of Beaufort is called Cendl in Welsh — a Welsh spelling of Kendall, the name of the brothers who built the ironworks it grew around	Blaenau Gwent	1779–1873–1877	Iron, Coal, Limestone
Beauport Park Roman Iron Mine A slag heap of over 100,000 tons found here in 1862, alongside a remarkably preserved Roman bath house later excavated by Time Team, marks what is thought to have been the third-largest ironworks in the entire Roman Empire.	East Sussex	1st century AD–3rd century AD	Iron
Bebside Colliery A Blyth-side steam-coal pit of the 1850s, worked for the shipping trade and finished before the industry was nationalised.	Northumberland	1858–1926	Coal
Beckermet Mine Beckermet's own closure in 1980 wasn't quite the end of Cumbrian haematite mining — that distinction belongs to the Florence Mine it had absorbed, which reopened independently afterwards and went on to become the last haematite mine working anywhere in Europe.	Cumbria	1903–3 October 1980	Iron
Beckwith Mine Its early riches were discovered by chance, when lead ore was found lodged in the spokes of a passing cart wheel -- a find so productive that it funded the founding of the Manx Northern Railway, built specifically to carry the mine's ore to Ramsey for shipping.	Isle of Man	1831–c. 1866	Lead
Bedford Colliery A pit known in its own day as fiery: in 1886 a man drawing props saw his lamp flame turn blue, said nothing, and thirty-eight died.	Greater Manchester	1876–1967	Coal
Bedford United Mine Bedford United's five original setts — Wheal Marquis, Wheal Tavistock, Delves Kitchen, Ding Dong and South Bedford — were each too small to be worth working alone, but combined into a mine substantial enough to become Devon's third-biggest copper producer.	Devon	1841–1890	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten
Bedlay Colliery The purpose-built mining village of Annathill grew up entirely around this one colliery, its three Miners' Rows, shops, butcher and pub all raised alongside the pit itself in 1905.	North Lanarkshire	1905–1981	Coal
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
Bedlington 'D' Colliery A Bedlington colliery run successively by the Bedlington Coal Co. and the NCB until 1968.	Northumberland	1855–1968	Coal
Bedlinog Colliery A Dowlais Iron Company pit that built its own hillside village, and where a hundred and sixty-one men spent a day and a night trapped underground in 1884.	Merthyr Tydfil	1878 (sinking)–1956	Coal
Bedlinog Drift A Taff Bargoed drift of the Dowlais steel company, closed as uneconomic in 1956 with its company dissolved days later.	Merthyr Tydfil	1929–31 March 1956	Coal
Bedwas Navigation Colliery The owners banned the miners' union after riots over a 20 per cent pay cut, and a breakaway union took its place at the pit for a decade.	Caerphilly	1912–May 1985	Coal
Bedwellty Pits Twenty-seven killed in 1865, six of them boys under sixteen — reported to the country in engravings of the colliery and of the funeral.	Blaenau Gwent	—	Coal
Bee Hole Colliery The Burnley pit beside Turf Moor whose name lived on for decades in the football ground's Bee Hole End.	Lancashire	1872–May 1935	Coal
Beech Tree Colliery Sunk in 1873, then left almost untouched for over forty years after a rival company allegedly bribed its way to the best coal underneath it — a story the colliery's own final closure, drowned by clay-borne floodwater in 1958, only adds to.	West Midlands	1873-74 (sunk)–1958	Coal
Beer Quarry Caves Britain's oldest continuously worked industrial site, mined by the Romans for prized building stone	Devon	1st century AD–1920s	Freestone
Beever Mine A Grassington Moor lead mine whose engine shaft of 1836 was one of only three there with water-powered pumps	North Yorkshire	By 1826–late 19th century	Lead
Beezy Mine Shallow lead workings on the Ure-Swale watershed whose spoil is rich in zinc ore the miners never recognised, worked before 1765 and abandoned before records began.	North Yorkshire	Before 1765–before 1861 (still listed 1863-74)	Lead
Beili Glas Colliery A Loughor farm pit that came and went for half a century, photographed from the air, it is thought, by a German reconnaissance aircraft.	Swansea	By 1886–30 September 1932	Coal
Beldi Hill Mine A dispute over who actually owned the lead beneath Beldi Hill ran for over three decades and was only settled after an appeal to the House of Lords.	North Yorkshire	early 1700s–1883	Lead
Beldon Lead Mine A Derwent valley lead mine whose 1805 enlargement is thought to have brought in a Boulton and Watt engine, with fluorspar trials on its dumps a century later.	County Durham	18th century–by 1820	Lead, Fluorspar
Belhaven Colliery A Wishaw colliery of nearly 500 men in 1900 whose dead included Lizzie Ralston, a 19-year-old coal cleaner caught on an unfenced shaft.	North Lanarkshire	By 1900–1923	Coal
Bellfield Colliery A Coalburn colliery whose owner died in its own pithead machinery, and which drowned in the 1921 strike.	South Lanarkshire	Early 1890s–1921	Coal
Bellside Colliery A Cleland ironstone and coal pit where a bottomer fell from a mid-landing when the cage he had called was stopped at the top.	North Lanarkshire	By 1872–after 1924	Coal, Ironstone
Bellstone Quarry It opened half a century before its famous neighbour and closed more than twenty years before it, and was never a success either way.	Pembrokeshire	1825–by 1891	Slate
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
Belman Bank Alum Works Named by the Dictionary of National Biography as the first alum works in England - though Slapewath, less than two miles away, is reported to have been at it a year earlier.	North Yorkshire	c. 1605–late 18th century	Alum
Belmont Mine Worked twice over with twenty years between: abandoned in 1886, reopened and electrified in 1907, and then, on one account, raising no ore at all for the last decade before it shut.	North Yorkshire	1853 (lease)–1921 (production)	Ironstone
Belnahua Slate Quarries An island quarried hollow and abandoned overnight in 1914, its machinery left where it stood.	Argyll and Bute	1632–1914	Slate
Belowda Mine A tin mine on a granite beacon in mid-Cornwall, its engine house, boiler house and smithy all still standing.	Cornwall	from late 19th century	Tin
Belstone Mine Its 70-foot pumping waterwheel, erected around 1878, was among the largest ever built on mainland Britain -- painted bright red, it was said to be so alarming that it was almost impossible to ride or drive a horse past it.	Devon	1829–1891	Copper, Arsenic
Benallt Mine Requisitioned in 1941 because German submarines had cut off the manganese imports British steelmaking depended on	Gwynedd	1886–December 1945	Manganese
Benarty Colliery A Kinross-shire shaft with Fife workings, and later a wartime surface mine that won three times the national average productivity.	Fife	c. 1880 (mines)–1926	Coal
Benbain Colliery A Doon valley pit that employed single figures for a generation and then grew tenfold, one of the ring of workings feeding the Dalmellington Iron Company's furnaces.	East Ayrshire	by 1894	Coal
Benhar Colliery Seventy thousand tons a year in the 1840s, and a private railway so steep that wagons went down eight at a time with iron snibbles jammed in their wheels — until the day fifteen went down on one.	West Lothian	from 1818	Coal
Benston Colliery The 1860 flooding that ended coal mining at Johnstone, remembered on the town's miners' cairn.	Renfrewshire	By 1857–1860	Coal
Bent Colliery The Hamilton pit whose 1872 lease launched James Stedman Dixon's Bent Colliery Company, the firm that went on to mine the coal under Hamilton Palace itself.	South Lanarkshire	by 1872	Coal
Bent Grange Colliery Thomas Butterworth's colliery at Oldham, where explosions killed 16 in 1850 and 20 in 1853.	Greater Manchester	By 1841–by 1869	Coal
Bentley Colliery The rescue of injured miners after the 1931 explosion, which involved carrying casualties two miles underground to the shaft, brought eight Edward Medals — an unusually high number for a single disaster.	South Yorkshire	1895–December 1993	Coal
Bentley Grange Ironstone Pits Sixty shaft mounds in a grid across the fields at Emley, dug for the Tankersley ironstone and long linked to Byland Abbey's grange and forge.	West Yorkshire	Late 12th century–by mid-15th century	Ironstone
Bentyfield Mine Worked jointly by the London Lead Company and the Alston Moor Mining Company, and linked by tramway to the neighbouring Whitesike mine -- together protected as a single Scheduled Monument.	Cumbria	19th century–by 1882	Lead
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
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
Bere Alston Silver-Lead Mines Royal silver mines on the Tamar, so productive that in 1296 they supplied 15% of all silver reaching the London mint	Devon	1292–mid-16th century	Silver, Lead
Berry Hill Colliery A Potteries colliery and ironworks of the 1840s to 1960 that became the Coal Board's regional headquarters and rescue station.	Staffordshire	1840s–1960	Coal, Iron
Bersham Colliery One of North Wales's last two working collieries alongside Point of Ayr; survived two fatal 19th/20th-century explosions	Wrexham	1864 (sinking, as Glan-yr-afon)–1986	Coal
Berthlwyd Colliery A Gower colliery that drove a mile of cross-measures drift to find better seams, and whose engine house still stands above Three Crosses.	Swansea	1903–1937	Coal
Bestwood Colliery Its 1873 winding house is Grade II* listed for an early use of structural concrete and holds what is said to be Britain’s only in-situ vertical winding engine.	Nottinghamshire	1870s–June 1967	Coal
Betteshanger Colliery The biggest of Kent's four collieries and the last pit in England's most militant coalfield to close	Kent	1924 (sinking)–1989	Coal
Bettisfield Colliery The largest of the eleven or more coal pits worked at Bagillt, whose buildings still stand on the Dee shore beside the Wales Coast Path.	Flintshire	1872–c. 1934	Coal
Bettws Llantwit Colliery A Tondu drift floated in 1873 on the promise of 500 tons a day, one of whose share certificates survives in the national museum.	Bridgend	1828–1935 (abandonment plan)	Coal
Betws Colliery Betws' 1994 management buyout, which kept the pit working for a further nine years after British Coal gave up on it, echoes the story of worker ownership that saved Tower Colliery in the same era — proof that a mine written off as uneconomic by its nationalised owner could still find a viable second life under different management.	Carmarthenshire	From 1974–June 2003	Coal
Bevercotes Colliery Built to be worked by one man at a console instead of a team underground — and defeated within a few metres by roof conditions no automation could read	Nottinghamshire	From late 1950s (sinking)–7 May 1993	Coal
Bewicke Main Colliery A Perkins family pit near Kibblesworth whose site is now a caravan park.	Tyne and Wear	1862–1932	Coal
Beynon Colliery Blaina's last deep pit, sunk in 1922 to win the coal west of the Ebbw Fach and closed in 1975 after a fire in old workings, ending two centuries of mining in the town.	Blaenau Gwent	From 25 April 1922 (sinking)–April 1975	Coal
Bickershaw Colliery A Victoria Cross holder, decorated for running a message through sustained machine-gun fire in 1918, died at Bickershaw in 1940 in the most ordinary of mining accidents — carbon monoxide poisoning, no different from what killed men here with no medals at all.	Greater Manchester	c.1830 (sinking)–13 March 1992	Coal
Bickerstaffe Colliery A colliery on the Earl of Derby's land near Skelmersdale, worked from the 1840s to 1936, whose spoil heap is now a wooded trail.	Lancashire	1840s–September 1936	Coal
Bideford Black Mine Devon’s only worked coalfield produced a pigment rather than a fuel: the black that camouflaged tanks in the Second World War and went into Max Factor’s mascara came out of adits under Bideford.	Devon	By the 13th century–1969	Mineral Black, Coal
Big Pit Now Wales's National Coal Museum, with underground tours led by former miners	Torfaen	1880–1980	Coal, Ironstone
Bigge Pit, Willington A Bell family pit on Tyneside where gas from the Bensham was piped up a vaulted shaft and burned as a flare.	Tyne and Wear	18th century–1889	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
Bigrigg Mine Its documented history reaches back to the mid-12th century, when the mine known as 'Acknirby', just south of the village, was willed to a Cistercian monastery -- possibly the earliest documented iron mine anywhere in West Cumbria.	Cumbria	medieval–1932	Iron
Bildershaw Colliery A West Auckland pit that tried three seams in its first fifteen years.	County Durham	By 1930–16 October 1956	Coal
Billingham Anhydrite Mine Thirty-three million tons taken out to make fertiliser — and then sealed and abandoned when the works switched to natural gas	Stockton-on-Tees	1927 (sinking from 1926)–1971 (shaft capped 1978)	Anhydrite
Billingsley Colliery Four separate attempts to make coal pay at Billingsley over 130 years, and four failures — one of them ending with the promoter fleeing the country ahead of his creditors.	Shropshire	1794–September 1921	Coal, Ironstone
Billy Bank Mine The last copper mine in Richmondshire, found by chert miners and reached along a cart road built over the river's edge.	North Yorkshire	1905 (levels)–1912	Copper
Bilsthorpe Colliery Struck by three separate multiple-fatality disasters across seven decades -- a shaft-sinking piping collapse in 1927, twin firedamp explosions in 1934, and a roof collapse in 1993 -- with 77 deaths recorded at the pit in total across its working life.	Nottinghamshire	July 1925–1997	Coal
Bilston Glen Colliery A pit built in the 1950s for a century of coal, closed thirty-seven years later with its memorial the most solid thing left.	Midlothian	From 1952 (sinking)–1989	Coal
Bincliff Lead Mines Owned throughout by the Duke of Devonshire, the same landowner behind the neighbouring Ecton copper mines already documented on this archive -- men were regularly transferred between the two workings as trade in each rose and fell.	Staffordshire	17th century–1885	Lead
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
Binnend Oil Works Sixteen years of work, a thousand men at its peak — and a village that went on being lived in for sixty years after the oil stopped, until its last resident left in 1954.	Fife	1878–1894 (mines)	Oil Shale
Binniehill Colliery An early adopter of wire winding ropes, where an 1863 gunpowder blast in the joiners' shop killed a boy playing outside, and whose colliers testified against the company store in 1871.	Falkirk	1840s–1896	Coal, Ironstone
Binstead Quarry A limestone lens 400 m by 200 m that built Norman England — and was worked out inside two centuries, leaving no exposure at all.	Isle of Wight	Roman (2nd or early 3rd century)–14th century	Limestone
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
Birchenwood Colliery The pits shut about 1932 and the coke ovens kept working another forty years on coal carted in from elsewhere.	Staffordshire	About 1891–About 1932	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
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
Birchrock Colliery A Cwmdulais valley drift known in turn as Birch Rock, Graig Merthyr and 'Cory', whose low-ash Graigola coal fed Swansea's patent-fuel works for a century.	Swansea	c. 1868 (NCB records: 1873)–23 June 1978	Coal
Birdshill Quarry Four-tenths of a hectare of Carmarthenshire limestone that geologists have been coming to for a hundred and fifty years.	Carmarthenshire	by early 19th century	Limestone
Birkacre Colliery A colliery sunk to feed the print and bleach works that rose on the site of Arkwright's burned Birkacre mill, closed on the eve of the Second World War.	Lancashire	1880 or c.1887–July 1939	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
Birkdale Common Mine Sits in Birkdale, the westernmost of the small side-dales -- alongside Great Sleddale, Little Sleddale and Whitsundale -- whose becks join near Keld to form the River Swale itself.	North Yorkshire	ended by 1912	Lead
Birker Moor Mine An Eskdale haematite mine that raised over 3,000 tons in 1881, and whose agent reported on an immense ore deposit 2,500 feet up that nobody could reach.	Cumbria	By 1881, possibly earlier–by 1888	Iron
Birkrigg Colliery A Larkhall colliery of the Darngavil Coal Company that grew from 30 men in 1894 to nearly 200 in the early 1920s.	South Lanarkshire	By 1890–c. 1932	Coal
Birley Collieries The pit stopped drawing coal in 1943 and spent its last years teaching Bevin Boys how to mine.	South Yorkshire	From 1870s–1943	Coal
Bishop Middleham Colliery A small south Durham pit that stood idle for years at a time and ended as an outlier of Mainsforth Colliery, closing in 1936.	County Durham	1846–1936	Coal
Bishwell Colliery A Gower coking-coal pit that went through six owners in twenty years, with an 18-foot Waddle fan fitted in 1881.	Swansea	By 1864–1931	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
Black Boy Colliery The Nicholas Wood pit of 1830 whose Machine Pit became Auckland Park Colliery.	County Durham	1830–1939	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
Black Park Colliery One of the oldest pits in North Wales, whose canal wharf sent out the last load of coal the Llangollen Canal ever carried.	Wrexham	Early 19th century–1949 (shaft to 1968)	Coal
Black Prince Colliery The coking-coal pit sunk for Charles Attwood's Tow Law ironworks in 1846.	County Durham	1846–1933	Coal
Black Vein Colliery The Risca pit called the death pit, whose seam gave its name to the coalfield's most feared coal	Caerphilly	1840 (sinking)–1921	Coal
Blackbrook Colliery A St Helens pit whose dry Rushy Park coal caught fire from a single uncovered lamp in 1856, and where a collier was fined for lighting his pipe below ground.	Merseyside	By the 1790s–c.1863	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
Blackcraig Lead Mines Discovered by a soldier building a military road, worked in three separate bursts a century apart	Dumfries and Galloway	1763–1917	Lead, Zinc
Blackdene Mine A Weardale lead and fluorspar mine worked since at least the fifteenth century, prized today by collectors for its fine purple fluorite.	County Durham	By the early 15th century–1987	Fluorspar, Lead
Blackett Colliery A Melkridge pit of 1873 that once employed over 450 in the Little Limestone Coal, abandoned in 1927.	Northumberland	1873–1927	Coal
Blackett Level Nearly five miles of tunnel driven over half a century to find lead, and it found almost none; the water it was also meant to move is still coming out.	Northumberland	1855–1903	Lead
Blackfield Colliery A Tow Law pit worked by four men at the end, closed in 1928.	County Durham	1865–17 September 1928	Coal
Blackhall Colliery The beach that made Blackhall famous on screen was, in reality, an industrial waste tip — the film shows it exactly as the colliery's own conveyor had left it.	County Durham	From 1909 (sinking)–16 April 1981	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
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
Blackmoor Rake One of the open lead workings, alongside neighbouring Ubley Rake, that gave Charterhouse's Victorian lead-slag operation its name -- over 100 metres long and up to 10 metres deep, still clearly visible in the landscape today.	Somerset	Roman–1885	Lead
Blackpatch Flint Mines A flint mine later used as a cemetery: Bronze Age barrows were raised over its filled-in shafts.	West Sussex	from c. 3000 BC	Flint
Blackrod Colliery A group of numbered Lancashire pits, and a name that carries an 1836 explosion which killed five women.	Greater Manchester	1855–1930	Coal
Blackston Colliery A Nimmo pit at Avonbridge that shrank to a pumping pit and came back twice on a smaller scale.	Falkirk	by 1894	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
Blackwell Colliery The A Winning pit at Blackwell, sunk from 1871 with its own village, where a coal-dust explosion in 1895 killed seven and the jury would not accept dust as the cause.	Derbyshire	1871 (sinking)–1969	Coal
Blaen Baglan Colliery A hillside colliery named from the derelict manor house of Blaen Baglan, whose tangled record runs from 1842 to a last listing of seven men in 1923.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1842–1879	Coal
Blaen Dowlais Colliery One of scores of small levels driven to feed a works that, by 1845, was the largest ironworks in the world.	Merthyr Tydfil	to May 1924	Coal
Blaen Rhas Colliery A collier died here in a roof fall in 1875, in an account that spells the pit's name slightly differently — very likely the same site.	Merthyr Tydfil	By 1875–1901 or 1917 (sources differ)	Coal
Blaen y Cwm Quarry A Blaenau Ffestiniog slate quarry served by the Rhiwbach Tramway to the Ffestiniog Railway.	Gwynedd	c. 1818–8 May 1914	Slate
Blaenant Colliery A Crynant drift mine that became the last colliery working in the Neath valley before its 1990 closure.	Neath Port Talbot	1930–11 May 1990	Coal
Blaenau Saron Colliery A 23-year-old collier, Thomas Davies, was run over and killed by trams here in May 1879; probably the same level as Saron Colliery.	Carmarthenshire	by 1879	Coal
Blaenavon Ironworks A pioneering Welsh ironworks, the first anywhere to use a steam-powered blowing engine in 1789, now a museum at the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.	Torfaen	1788-89–1904	Iron, Coal
Blaencaegurwen Colliery An Amman Valley anthracite drift where the Wales scrum-half Tudor Williams, 23, was electrocuted in 1922.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1884–before 1935	Coal, Anthracite
Blaenclydach Colliery The engineman blacked out, the brake came off, and ninety men went down the drift with nothing holding them.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	from From early 1860s	Coal
Blaencuffin Level A hillside level above Llanhilleth worked for two hundred years, from 1801 to 2001, and in 1830 the goal of an early steam locomotive trial.	Blaenau Gwent	1801–April 2001	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
Blaengwawr Colliery The pit that made David Davis's name — he was known ever after as David Davis, Blaengwawr — and where thirteen died in 1861 because a ventilation door was left open.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1843–1926	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
Blaenhirwaun Colliery A compressed-air fan blade struck sparks off stone, and a face in the Lower Pumpquart went up.	Carmarthenshire	19th century–1 September 1962	Anthracite
Blaennant Colliery An ironworks pit at Abernant that passed through five owners in some eighty years, from the Aberdare Iron Company to Powell Duffryn.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c.1840–1927	Coal
Blaenpergwm Colliery One of a cluster of small licensed mines high in the Rheola Forest, where pit horses were still at work around 1990.	Neath Port Talbot	from 1955	Coal
Blaenrhondda Colliery The first pit at the head of the Rhondda Fawr, whose shafts lived on as two of Fernhill's pits.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1859–1920s	Coal
Blaenserchan Colliery This colliery kept producing coal for sixteen years after it stopped winding anything to its own surface, its output instead routed entirely underground through a neighbouring pit.	Torfaen	1890–28 August 1985	Coal
Blaentillery Colliery Where the Coal Board sank half a million pounds into a drift that failed within months, and small operators then kept working until the 2010s.	Torfaen	1899–after July 2011	Coal
Blaenycae Quarry Slate was lifted from the pit first by chain incline and later by a Blondin ropeway -- a cableway system named after Charles Blondin, the tightrope walker who crossed the Niagara gorge in 1859, and adapted for the Nantlle Valley's own quarrying needs.	Gwynedd	c.1820–1930s	Slate
Blagill Mine Blagill has the unusual distinction of being the only place in the world where barytocalcite -- a mineral most collections only ever see a specimen of -- was ever mined as a commercial ore in its own right.	Cumbria	1859–1895	Lead, Barytocalcite
Blaguegate Colliery The Earl of Lathom's own colliery at Skelmersdale, older than the town's railway station, which once bore its name.	Lancashire	c. 1850–February 1933	Coal
Blainscough Colliery A Coppull pit bought after closure by Manchester Collieries purely for its share of the coal quota.	Lancashire	c. 1865–c. 1934	Coal
Blairadam Colliery A Kelty pit where twelve yards of 'the hardest freestone' roof fell on a coal-cutting machine in 1908.	Fife	Late 1880s–by 1924	Coal
Blairenbathie Colliery A Fife Coal Company colliery on the Blairadam estate near Kelty, worked by shafts and a drift from about 1900 to 1962.	Perth and Kinross	By 1900–1962	Coal
Blairhall Colliery Begun for ironstone by the Carron Company, and sunk again in 1906 against water coming in at 201 gallons a minute, into shafts named for an earl’s son and daughter.	Fife	1870s–May 1969	Coal, Ironstone
Blairmuckhill Colliery Harthill's Blairmuckhill pit, 1910 to 1959, worked with naked lights until a 1915 gas explosion killed the under-manager and a contractor he had led into an uninspected dook.	North Lanarkshire	1905 to 1910–1959	Coal, Ironstone
Blakethwaite Mine Blakethwaite transferred its smelting operations to Surrender Mill in 1878 — the same Surrender Mill already recorded on this site, meaning two of Swaledale's best-known smelt-mill ruins were, for a few years at least, run as parts of the very same company's operation.	North Yorkshire	1819 (mine)–1878	Lead
Blakey Colliery A moorland colliery whose soft coal was barely worth working, kept going because its tenant burned it in his own lime kilns.	North Yorkshire	By 1715–1893	Coal
Blanchland Fluor Mines A fluorspar company that robbed what the lead miners left, winding ore on a hoist driven off a car's back axle	Northumberland	from 1938	Lead, Fluorspar
Blantyre Colliery The site of Scotland's worst-ever mining disaster: an 1877 explosion that killed 207 men and boys, followed by two further fatal explosions and accidents at the same colliery group over the next two years (see Disasters, below).	South Lanarkshire	19th century–1957	Coal
Blantyreferme Colliery A Clyde-side Lanarkshire pit sunk in the 1890s that returned exactly the same workforce, 656 people, in every Lists of Mines year from 1923 to 1947.	South Lanarkshire	from 1894	Coal
Blaydon Burn Colliery Its coal crossed the valley on a high platform to the drops, and Cowen's stamped firebricks still lie in the burn.	Tyne and Wear	1850s–1956	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
Blayshaw Gill Mine A poor Nidderdale lead level kept going by its richer neighbour at Lolly Scar, which raised a few dozen tons in fifteen years.	North Yorkshire	By 1870 (earlier old workings)–1909–1910	Lead
Blea Tarn Mine A single-phase Eskdale iron mine of the 1870s whose adits climb the valley side beside an old peat track.	Cumbria	1871–by 1877 (company in liquidation)	Iron
Blenkinsopp Colliery Its drift mouth opened twenty metres from a medieval castle, and its limestone roof held up so well that the goaf came down in blocks larger than cars.	Northumberland	By 1836–2002	Coal
Blidworth Colliery A £2 million post-war reorganisation, completed under the National Coal Board, raised its output from the Top Hard seam to nearly 650,000 tons a year from a workforce of 1,200.	Nottinghamshire	1924-26–1 March 1989	Coal
Blists Hill Colliery Its own blast furnaces, brick and tile works, and mines were consolidated by the Madeley Wood Company into a single integrated ironmaking site, now preserved whole as the Blists Hill Victorian Town open-air museum.	Shropshire	From 1770s–1941	Coal, Iron, Fireclay
Blucher Colliery Named for the Prussian field marshal after Waterloo, the pit shut in 1867, was reopened in 1900 and given its own workers' village.	Tyne and Wear	1800–27 January 1956	Coal
Blue Hills Mine A tin mine in a valley still worked by tin streamers, with an engine house built of slate.	Cornwall	Early 18th century–1897	Tin, Arsenic
Blue John Cavern Blue John is so rare that only about fifteen veins of it are known to have ever existed anywhere on Earth — and eight of them are inside this one cavern.	Derbyshire	from At least 1766	Fluorspar
Boaterby Mine A quarry that hit its limit and simply kept going inwards, driving a drift into its own face and turning into a mine.	Cumbria	1885–1920	Gypsum
Bodringallt Colliery Sunk in 1864 and renamed Ferndale No. 3, it ended its life pumping and ventilating for the Ferndale pits until 1959.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1864–1959	Coal
Bodyst Uchaf Colliery An NCB-licensed mine working the No.1 Rhondda seam to 1995, on the site of an 1890 slant driven into the Red Vein.	Carmarthenshire	1890–1995	Coal
Bog Mine The Somme Tunnel takes its name not from any accident underground but from the war raging in France at the time it was dug — driven in 1917 purely to give unemployed miners paid work, a home-front answer to a battle its own workforce could hear about only from the newspapers.	Shropshire	1730s–1924	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite
Boghead Colliery The pits that gave the world 'Boghead coal', the oil-rich cannel at the start of the Scottish paraffin industry.	West Lothian	1848–c. 1920	Coal, Cannel Coal, Ironstone
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
Bogles Hole Pit An ironworks pit where a single door left open over a weekend killed a whole shift.	Glasgow	—	Coal
Bogside Colliery Bogside's own miners set national production records in the 1960s — a pit at the very top of its game, undone two decades later not by exhausted coal but by flood damage sustained in one of Britain's most bitter industrial disputes.	Fife	1957-59–1985-86	Coal
Boiling Well Mine A Hayle towans mine that changed its name four times and gave Cornwall the saying 'on Boiling mine payday' for never.	Cornwall	By 1815–1862	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Bold Colliery Bold outlasted the 1984-85 strike itself, only for the National Coal Board to close it anyway seven months later — a pit that had survived floods, a fatal shaft accident and 110 years of continuous working, brought down by a balance sheet rather than the ground beneath it.	Merseyside	1875–1985	Coal
Boldon Colliery A Harton Coal Company pit that built its own village, and whose miners built the first aged miners' homes in the country.	Tyne and Wear	1869–24 June 1982	Coal
Bolehill Quarry Reopened in 1901 to build two dams, worked by men living ten to a tin hut, and shut again when the dams were finished.	Derbyshire	600–c. 1914 (dam contract)	Sandstone
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
Bolsover Colliery It gave its name to a company that built model villages across two coalfields — and to the "Bolsover System" of continuous longwall mining.	Derbyshire	1891–1993	Coal
Bolton Parks Lead Mine A Wensleydale lead mine with an unusually complete set of ore works, where the first dressing floor sat above the crushing mill instead of below it.	North Yorkshire	From January 1849–1871	Lead
Bomarsund Colliery Named for a Crimean War naval victory the same year it was sunk, the pit gave its name to a village whose 1922 War Memorial Hall and former brewery still outlast the colliery itself by decades.	Northumberland	1905–1965	Coal
Bonawe Iron Furnace The longest-lived charcoal-fired blast furnace in Scotland and now the most complete surviving charcoal ironworks in Britain.	Argyll and Bute	1753–1874-76	Iron
Bondog Hole Mine Its powder house, if correctly identified, is a rare survival -- most mines of this kind left no trace of where they kept their blasting powder.	Derbyshire	Working by the mid-16th century–by mid-19th century	Lead
Bonds Main Colliery A Staveley company pit whose workforce swung from 940 men to 39 in thirteen years, and whose village was cut away by the M1.	Derbyshire	1896–May 1949	Coal
Bonnyside Colliery Fireclay mines that supplied a Bonnybridge firebrick works for over seventy years, one reached by a 600-metre tunnel under the railway and a reservoir.	Falkirk	By 1894–1967	Fireclay, Coal
Bonsall Leys Mines A scheduled monument whose ten parallel lead rakes are thought to be nationally unparalleled in their complexity -- Bonsall Leys packs more intensive small-scale post-medieval lead working into one site than almost anywhere else in the country.	Derbyshire	1540s–19th century	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar
Bonville's Court Colliery The largest pit of the Pembrokeshire anthracite coalfield, raising four-fifths of the county's coal in its last decade, and burnt on Queen Victoria's royal yacht.	Pembrokeshire	1842 or 1855 (sources differ)–1930	Anthracite
Boosbeck Mine Pillars drawn from under the village brought two hundred houses down in 1883, and the court case that followed bankrupted the landowner.	North Yorkshire	1872 (sinking)–1887	Ironstone
Booth Town Pit The Halifax day hole where seventeen-year-old Patience Kershaw hurried eleven corves a day, a mile and more underground and back, and told the 1841 commission about it.	West Yorkshire	By 1841–1860 or 1875	Coal
Boothen Colliery One of Earl Granville's Hanley pits, feeding the Shelton furnaces with Bassey Mine and Gubbin ironstone as well as coal.	Staffordshire	by the 1860s	Coal, Ironstone
Booze Mine A local legend held that eighteenth-century miners once broke into an underground lake here and drowned 24 men and two pit ponies -- researchers have found no record of any such event in the parish registers, though a smaller, unconfirmed accident involving three deaths may be the story's real origin.	North Yorkshire	1872–late 19th century (lead)	Lead, Slate
Borras Quarry Eighty hectares of Welsh sand and gravel dug out of a wartime airfield, with Neolithic earth ovens turning up ahead of the diggers.	Wrexham	1970s–Still active	Sand and Gravel
Borrowdale Colliery, Brough A ten-man drift on Stainmore that worked seams as thin as twelve inches, reached by a half-mile horse-drawn level, until its abandonment in 1934.	Cumbria	By 1873–December 1934	Coal
Boscastle Slate Quarries The men were lowered down the cliff face on cables, and lost their pay whenever frost or a storm stopped the work.	Cornwall	—	Slate
Boscean Mine Water from its flooded workings was blamed for the 1893 Wheal Owles disaster, in which nineteen men and a boy drowned.	Cornwall	By 1584 (mentioned by Norden)–c. 1873	Tin
Boswedden Mine Powered by what was reputedly the second-largest waterwheel in Britain, some 65 feet in diameter -- large enough that it was said to be the biggest in Cornwall.	Cornwall	1808–1876	Tin, Copper
Botallack Mine Clifftop engine houses with workings extending under the sea	Cornwall	1500s–1895	Tin, Lead, Cobalt, Copper, Arsenic, Silver
Bothwell Castle Colliery The government itself took direct control of this colliery in 1943, unsatisfied with its wartime output — a rare instance of the state stepping directly into day-to-day management rather than just regulating from outside.	South Lanarkshire	1875–1959	Coal
Bothwell Park Colliery A Baird pit of over 800 men near Bellshill whose haulage roads were notorious for runaway races of hutches.	North Lanarkshire	c. 1874–1932	Coal
Boulby Alum Quarries Fed by barrels of urine shipped from London, because the process needed ammonia and there was no cheaper source in the country	North Yorkshire	1650s–1871	Alum
Boulby Mine Britain's deepest mine at 1.1km down; also hosts the UK's only deep underground physics laboratory	North Yorkshire	1970s–Still active	Potash, Salt, Polyhalite
Boundary Level A 19th-century drift near the Llwyndu Brick Works, working the Graigola Five-Feet seam (70in) until abandoned in July 1891.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1882–July 1891	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
Bowburn Colliery A first shaft of 1840 found no workable coal; the pit sunk in 1906 raised 2,900 tons a day by the late 1930s and lasted to 1967.	County Durham	1906 (earlier shafts from 1840)–22 July 1967	Coal
Bowden Close Colliery Every ton it raised went into its own coke ovens.	County Durham	1845–June 1930	Coal, Fireclay
Bowes Cross Mine A lead mine named for a hamlet, on ground whose mineral rights had been bought and sold since the fourteenth century.	North Yorkshire	from Working by 1888	Lead
Bowhill Colliery Known locally as 'the Josephine' after the chairman's daughter who opened it in 1895 — a name that outlived the coal company itself by seventy years.	Fife	1895–May 1965	Coal, Iron
Bowithick Quarry A small Cornish slate quarry worked in tandem with its neighbour, sharing one beam engine between the two.	Cornwall	By 1870–c. 1913	Slate
Box Colliery One of Llanelli's earliest collieries, worked by Alexander Raby and General Warde, whose name lives on in Box Cemetery.	Carmarthenshire	from late 18th century	Coal
Box Quarry Brunel's Box Tunnel revealed by accident just how much stone lay beneath the hill it was blasted through — the resulting mine grew into the largest in the country, 600 acres of underground passages centred on a chamber simply known as the Cathedral.	Wiltshire	Worked from at least the 17th-18th century–1968	Freestone
Boyles Hall Colliery Its disused workings were the way out for the men who escaped the Diglake inundation of 1895.	Staffordshire	Late 18th century–1896	Coal
Boythorpe Colliery Chesterfield's Boythorpe pit, where in 1878 three or four hundred men ran half-naked for the shaft ahead of a roof-loosed gas cloud and a company locomotive later killed its own manager at the Matlock road crossing.	Derbyshire	By 1811–About 1900 (closed by 1914)	Coal
Brackley Colliery The Bridgewater Trustees' last big Lancashire sinking, boxed in by old workings from the start and kept alive for forty years on the leftovers of the collieries around it.	Greater Manchester	1878–1879 (sources differ)–1964	Coal
Bradda Head Mines Clifftop workings below Milner's Tower, with shafts sunk below sea level	Isle of Man	Bronze Age–1904	Copper, Lead, Silver
Bradford Colliery A colliery worked since at least the seventeenth century, sitting on 310 million tons of unmined coal, closed not because the coal ran out but because Manchester had grown up around it.	Greater Manchester	By the early 17th century (deep shaft from 1840)–1968	Coal
Braehead Colliery A Fauldhouse colliery worked with electric coal cutters and conveyors by the 1940s, whose whole plant, down to 1,800 yards of sidings, was auctioned in 1944.	West Lothian	c.1908–1944	Coal
Braich Slate Quarry A Moel Tryfan slate pit worked from the 1820s, an early user of the rotary rock drill, that employed 124 men in 1882 and closed in 1911.	Gwynedd	c. 1820s–1911	Slate
Braich yr Oen Mine A Cwm Llan copper mine high above the Watkin Path, worked in tandem with Hafod y Llan for sixty years.	Gwynedd	c. 1825–1880s	Copper
Braichgoch Slate Mine Nearly two centuries of working make it one of the longest-lived slate quarries in Wales, and its chambers now draw more visitors as King Arthur's Labyrinth than the quarry ever employed men at its Victorian peak.	Gwynedd	1787 (lease)–1970 or 1971	Slate
Braichycymmer Colliery One Garw Valley name for a cluster of hillside levels and Ffaldau's big third shaft, which together employed well over a thousand men.	Bridgend	by 1878	Coal
Braidhurst Colliery A Summerlee pit at Motherwell, worked from at least 1891 to 1942.	North Lanarkshire	By 1891–1942	Coal
Bramcrag Quarry The furthest of the seven Threlkeld microgranite quarries, reached by extending the quarry railway up the vale	Cumbria	from Later 19th century	Granite
Bramley Fall Quarry Supplied the gritstone for Leeds Town Hall and Kirkstall Abbey and was shipped as far as the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge.	West Yorkshire	From the 12th century–c.1930	Sandstone
Brancepeth Colliery Almost all its coal went into the ovens as 'Brancepeth coke', and the pit supplied Willington's gas as well as its jobs.	County Durham	1840–22 July 1967	Coal
Brandelhow Mine Brandelhow's real claim to fame today has little to do with what came out of the ground: the same fellside where German miners once worked silver and lead for Elizabeth I became, in 1902, the very first piece of land the National Trust ever owned.	Cumbria	By 1560s–early 1891	Lead, Copper, Silver, Graphite
Brandon Colliery Its Busty and Brockwell coal made the best quality coke, and its clay made sanitary pipes and 'fancy ware'.	County Durham	1856–15 March 1968	Coal
Brandon Flint Mines Worked on and off for 6,000 years; its Napoleonic-era knappers held the sole British Army contract for musket gunflints	Suffolk	c. 4000 BC–1930s	Flint
Brandon Walls Mine Most Weardale lead was valued for lead alone -- Brandon Walls' ore carried enough silver, around 6 ounces to the ton, that it was genuinely profitable on two metals at once.	County Durham	1801–1903	Lead, Silver
Brandy Bottom Colliery A rare complete 19th-century colliery surface east of Bristol — beam and horizontal engine houses, fan house and chimney — kept alive by a long conservation project.	Gloucestershire	Early 1800s–1936	Coal
Brandy Gill Mine A mineralogical rarity: the first authenticated British occurrence of stolzite was found here, alongside a suite of rare supergene minerals that only drew serious collector interest in the 1950s, decades after mining itself had ended.	Cumbria	1852 (uncertain)–1877	Lead, Copper
Branthwaite Colliery A small West Cumbria colliery whose only firmly dated fact predates its company records by half a century: a fatal roof fall in 1852.	Cumbria	By 1852, possibly earlier–1921	Coal, Fireclay, Ganister
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
Braysdown Colliery The pit that made Peasedown St John: a hamlet round a public house before it was sunk in 1845, and one of the largest villages in Somerset afterwards.	Somerset	1845–29 October 1959	Coal
Brayton Domain Colliery The Inspector wrote that seven men died because a deputy and a shotfirer lacked abilities equal to their responsibilities. The deputy was one of the seven.	Cumbria	to before 1947	Coal
Bredisholm Colliery A Bargeddie colliery whose pits fed the Monkland Canal by tram road and the Drumpeller Railway.	North Lanarkshire	By 1853–after 1934	Coal
Brennand Mine A Bowland lead mine rediscovered by drain-diggers in 1865 and worked for just nine years.	Lancashire	1814 (lease)–1874	Lead, Zinc
Brereton Colliery A Rugeley pit worked for a century and a half, with a disaster at each end of its life.	Staffordshire	By at least 1814–July 1960	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Bres Colliery Llanelli's first deep pit, whose flooded old workings broke into the neighbouring Old Castle Colliery in 1862 and drowned six men.	Carmarthenshire	1794–May 1889	Coal
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
Brettell Lane Colliery A Black Country pit worked for the clay as much as the coal, feeding the Harris and Pearson firebrick works whose 1888 offices still stand on Brettell Lane.	West Midlands	by 1875	Coal, Fireclay
Brewhouse Colliery Its haulage rope, 3,000 yards long by the 1850s, pulled up to 35 trams at once; the level worked eight named seams across more than sixty years.	Merthyr Tydfil	By the 1850s–May 1924	Coal
Bridgeness Colliery The Cadells' Bo'ness colliery, whose 1770s Newcomen engine house still stands in a public park — turned first into a cottage and then into a dovecot.	Falkirk	by 1770	Coal, Ironstone
Brightling and Mountfield Gypsum Mines A borehole drilled to look for coal found four seams of gypsum instead — and the mine it started is still working 150 years later	East Sussex	from 1876 (Mountfield)	Gypsum, Anhydrite
Brightside Colliery A Sheffield colliery where five men died together in 1867 when the winding rope broke.	South Yorkshire	1855–1886	Coal
Brightside Lead Mine Its ore bins are the only originals of their kind left standing anywhere in the Derbyshire orefield.	Derbyshire	Before 1853–by mid-19th century	Lead
Brimpts Tin Mine A Dartmoor tin working near Dartmeet, with North and South Mine sections.	Devon	c.1500 (streamworking)–1855	Tin
Brinsley Colliery D. H. Lawrence's father worked here from the age of seven until his retirement — the real colliery behind the fictional 'Beggarlee' of Sons and Lovers.	Nottinghamshire	1842–1934 (shafts retained until 1970)	Coal
Britain Colliery Its surviving headframe stands inside a round brick tower, a rarity among British collieries.	Derbyshire	1827 (shallow shafts)–1946	Coal
Britannia Colliery, Pengam Powell Duffryn's pit at Pengam, sunk 1910-14 and hailed as the first all-electric colliery, with no steam boilers at all.	Caerphilly	1910-1914–8 December 1983 (pumping until 1989)	Coal
Britannia Copper Mine Hundreds of thousands of people walk past this mine every year on their way up Snowdon, over a causeway it built.	Gwynedd	Around 1800–1916	Copper
Britannic Colliery A Gilfach Goch steam-coal colliery at the sharp end of the 1910 Cambrian Combine dispute.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1873 or 1895–30 January 1960	Coal
British Rhondda Colliery Davis' steam-coal drifts at the head of the Vale of Neath, 1890 to 1935, six hundred strong in 1923, whose name the neighbouring Rhigos drifts inherited.	Neath Port Talbot	1890–1935	Coal
Broad Oak Colliery, Loughor Sunk by Thomas Edwards probably in the late 1820s, and employing about 100 men raising 60 to 100 tons a day by 1833.	Swansea	Probably late 1820s–March 1948	Coal
Broadcroft Quarry A working Portland stone quarry with a butterfly reserve on its own infilled ground.	Dorset	1900s (merged family quarries)–Still active	Limestone
Broadmeadow Lead Mine A drift lead mine at Alport with a hydraulic engine chamber deep underground, taking water from the river via raised launders.	Derbyshire	to 1852	Lead
Broadmoor Colliery A Begelly anthracite pit where women worked the windlass in 1842, and where a broken chain killed seven in 1844, one an eleven-year-old boy.	Pembrokeshire	c. 1820–1930	Coal
Brockham Hearthstone Mine A North Downs mine worked for hearthstone, the soft stone sold for whitening hearths and doorsteps, under the chalk quarries of a lime works.	Surrey	By 1879–February 1925	Freestone, Hearthstone
Brockley Porcellanite Quarry An island quarry whose Neolithic axe blanks were ferried to the mainland and traded as far as the south of England.	County Antrim	c. 3800 BC–c. 2500 BC	Porcellanite
Brodsworth Colliery Once the highest-output three-shaft colliery in Britain, paired with Woodlands, one of the finest early garden villages built for a mining community.	South Yorkshire	October 1905 (sinking)–7 September 1990	Coal
Brombil Colliery A copper-smelters' level above Taibach that met the Goytre Level underground and exported its surplus coal to Ireland.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1780–by 1878	Coal
Bromley Colliery Marketed a named speciality product, 'Bromley Smiths' Coal', and was struck by the worst single disaster in its own and neighbouring Pensford's shared history when a cage fell 60 yards down the shaft in 1913.	Somerset	1860–1957	Coal
Brookall Ditches Colliery An underground fire in 1851 filled the whole workings with smoke and killed six horses; the pit was sealed, a hundred men and boys were thrown out of work, and a week later the damage turned out to be trifling.	Gloucestershire	By 1840–after 1880	Coal
Brookhill Colliery The 1908 deep shaft that gathered all of Pinxton's old pits into one winding centre.	Derbyshire	1908 (sinking)–1969	Coal
Brookhouse Colliery Remembered chiefly for a serious 1958 overwinding accident that injured 36 of the 44 men in a single descending cage.	South Yorkshire	1929–26 October 1985	Coal
Broom Colliery One of the last attempts to mechanise the old Pembrokeshire anthracite field, defeated by a fault after five years.	Pembrokeshire	1850s–1938	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
Broomfield Colliery The upcast twin of Langtree, worked out in its last years by robbing its own shaft pillars.	Greater Manchester	c. 1850–March 1932	Coal
Broomhill Colliery The large colliery behind Amble's coal trade, which absorbed the Togston workings around 1900.	Northumberland	1849 (A Pit sinking)–3 February 1961	Coal
Broomrigg Colliery A Bonnybridge colliery of 641 men in 1920 where an early electric coal cutter killed its fireman in 1913.	Falkirk	By 1894–1930	Coal, Fireclay
Broomside Colliery A shallow Motherwell pit where waste was being stowed hydraulically as early as 1911.	North Lanarkshire	1869–October 1948 (abandoned 1950)	Coal
Broomstair Colliery A Tameside pit that drowned, was written off, and came back to employ more than 360 men before its final closure.	Greater Manchester	by 1809–1898	Coal
Brora Colliery It worked Jurassic coal, not Carboniferous — and after its liquidator shut it in 1960 the twenty-five sacked miners bought it back and ran it as a co-operative	Highland	From 1529–1974	Coal
Broughton Colliery The man who owned the hall sank the pit a hundred yards from his own front door.	Wrexham	1835 (sinking)–1910	Coal
Brown End Quarry A small Staffordshire limestone quarry whose faces expose Milldale limestone laid down in 300 metres of still tropical water.	Staffordshire	Mid 18th century–1960s	Limestone
Brown Lees Colliery A Biddulph pit that ended its life as the pumping shafts for its larger neighbour, Victoria.	Staffordshire	By 1887–1982	Coal
Brown Top Pit A Joseph Stocks shaft pit near Halifax whose hurriers Elizabeth Jackson and Selina Ambler gave evidence to the Children's Employment Commission in 1841.	West Yorkshire	by 1841	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
Brownhills Colliery A Brownhills pumping pit that drained a whole common's workings into the reservoir now called Chasewater.	Staffordshire	by 1849	Coal
Brownley Hill Mine Brownley Hill gave science one of its rarer minerals: alstonite, first identified here in the 1830s and named for the wider Alston Moor district the mine itself sits within.	Cumbria	worked from the early 1700s–1966	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Brownrigg Colliery Worked by the Duke of Northumberland with a steam pumping engine in the 1820s, on the remote moorland of Redesdale near Otterburn; still working in 1905, when it was finally beaten by water.	Northumberland	1820s–March 1905	Coal
Browns Folly Mine A Bath stone mine advertised by a folly its owner built above it, now better known for Boris, the oldest greater horseshoe bat ever recorded in Britain.	Somerset	—	Freestone, Limestone
Broxburn Oil Works Its spent waste alone built one of the largest artificial hills in Scotland, now a scheduled monument in its own right	West Lothian	1860s–26 April 1927	Oil Shale
Broxtowe Colliery The Babbington company's pit on the Broxtowe lands west of Basford, 1894 to 1929, whose railway line is now the path into Broxtowe Country Park.	Nottinghamshire	1863–65 (sinking)–1929	Coal
Brucefield Colliery A small Dunsmuir-owned pit north of Kennet with its own brickworks, commenced in 1905 and closed by the National Coal Board in April 1961.	Clackmannanshire	1905–April 1961	Coal
Brunton Bank Quarry A small disused quarry beside Hadrian's Wall that is the type locality of a fossil named after it.	Northumberland	ended by 1969	Limestone, Sandstone
Brusselton Colliery A small south-west Durham pit that the Coal Board tripled in size in the 1950s.	County Durham	1834–1968	Coal
Brusselton Tower Drift A private drift that stayed in private hands under nationalisation, leased out by the National Coal Board until 1968.	County Durham	1925–1968	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
Brymbo Colliery John Wilkinson bought a 500-acre estate in 1792 to get at what was under it; by 1821 there were 41 coal pits on the Brymbo Hall land alone, and the ironworks he built on it lasted until 1990.	Wrexham	By 1792–1938	Coal, Ironstone
Bryn Eglwys Quarry The quarry the narrow-gauge Talyllyn Railway was built to serve -- when the quarry closed for good in 1946 the railway nearly went with it, and its 1951 rescue by volunteers is now widely regarded as the birth of the heritage railway movement.	Gwynedd	1847–1946	Slate
Bryn Hafod-y-Wern Quarry An early Ogwen valley slate pit that could never drain itself or get enough water, worked by the Royal Bangor Slate Company until the Pennants cut off its supply in 1884.	Gwynedd	By 1780–1884	Slate
Bryn Hall Colliery A Crippin family pit at Bryn, twice wrecked by explosion, that George Orwell visited for The Road to Wigan Pier.	Greater Manchester	1859–1945	Coal
Bryn Navigation Colliery A Maesteg-area colliery that was among the first in South Wales to fight coal dust by water infusion at the face.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1896–7 June 1963 (production)	Coal
Bryn y Felin Copper Mine An eighteenth-century Glaslyn copper mine whose riverside stamps mill was once offered as a woollen mill.	Gwynedd	Before 1760–1875	Copper
Bryn-y-Garn Colliery A Hirfynydd small mine hauled by an old lorry engine geared to a winch, last worked by the sons of a well-known small-mines man.	Neath Port Talbot	1976–27 April 1998	Coal
Brynamman Colliery When water flooded one of its slants in 1933, a 21-year-old collier went back for a trapped group and brought them out last, and later swapped his Edward Medal for the George Cross on condition it stayed in Wales.	Carmarthenshire	By 1840s–1950 (last seams abandoned)	Coal
Brynderi Colliery An anthracite slant re-equipped for £50,000 by a London company in the late 1920s and sold up within a few years.	Powys	1923–1932 or 1933	Coal
Bryndu Colliery A Kenfig Hill colliery begun in 1834 for its own blast furnaces, where naked lights caused three fatal explosions in the 1850s.	Bridgend	1834–by 1908	Coal
Brynglas Colliery A small anthracite mine whose last investment, a new drift, missed the coal altogether, closing it in 1993.	Carmarthenshire	1964–1993	Anthracite
Bryngwiog Lead Mine Sixteen drowned on a Saturday in 1862 when the workings holed into flooded old ground on Halkyn Mountain.	Flintshire	—	Lead
Bryngwyn Colliery A Bedwas pit drowned out in 1893 when its neighbours stopped pumping; its unusual 1868 engine house survives, listed Grade II*.	Caerphilly	1860s–June 1903	Coal
Brynhenllys Colliery An upper Swansea valley anthracite colliery driven by waterwheels, whose Waunlwyd slant is claimed as the first stay-down strike in the South Wales coalfield.	Powys	1872–1955	Anthracite
Brynkinalt Colliery The southernmost pit in the North Wales coalfield, which worked under two countries and stayed open through the 1912 strike.	Wrexham	1860s–November 1968 (coal from 1928)	Coal
Brynlliw Colliery Abandoned in 1927 with its shafts and headgear left standing — and reopened twenty-seven years later at a cost of £4.8 million.	Swansea	1903–1983	Coal
Brynlow Mine A miner working for Charles Roe in 1764 scratched his initials and the date into the coffin-shaped tunnel wall -- probably Jonathan Wagstaff, still legible there today alongside a second, later inscription from 1866.	Cheshire	Bronze Age–19th century	Copper
Brynmally Colliery Thirteen drowned in 1856 with the first body not recovered for four weeks, and twenty killed by firedamp in 1889 — several of them boys of fourteen.	Wrexham	from late 1830s or early 1840s	Coal
Brynmenyn Colliery A small Garw-side colliery that dug fireclay with its coal, probably for the brickworks across the river.	Bridgend	1895–1910	Coal, Fireclay
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
Bryntail Lead Mine More of its buildings survive intact than at almost any other Welsh metal mine — and it stands directly below a modern reservoir dam	Powys	Worked from the late 18th century–1884	Lead, Barite
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
Brynwith Colliery A gas-coal slant whose owners sided with the breakaway Miners' Industrial Union, and whose 1909 strike ended with a crowd chasing two working miners home across a brook.	Bridgend	c. 1904–1935	Coal
Buckden Gavel Mine A Wharfedale lead mine that worked pipes and flats rather than veins, beside the ruins of a smelt mill that had taken the same ore a century earlier.	North Yorkshire	1803 or 1804–by the 1880s	Lead
Buckhill Colliery A Broughton Moor colliery of 1873 to 1932 whose coal went by a 1-in-70 railway to the Allerdale Company's coke ovens, and whose site became a naval armaments depot.	Cumbria	1873–27 November 1932	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Buddon Wood Quarry An 1821 estate quarry that became, through Buddon Wood, the largest granite site in Europe	Leicestershire	1821–Still active	Granite
Bug and Wink Colliery Coleorton No. 3 Colliery, worked from 1875 by Checkland & Co. and bought in 1933 by the owners of New Lount, known locally as the Bug & Wink or Checklands Colliery.	Leicestershire	1875–25 July 1933	Coal
Bullcliffe Wood Colliery A small Yorkshire drift mine that changed its name in 1948 and its whole identity in 1985.	West Yorkshire	1927–30 August 1985	Coal
Bullcroft Colliery The sinking met what the accounts call a subterranean river — pumps rated at 6,250 gallons a minute could not hold it, so they withdrew the pumps and froze the ground instead.	South Yorkshire	1911–25 September 1970	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
Bullhouse Colliery A small Pennine pit whose drainage tunnel outlived it, and stained the Don orange.	South Yorkshire	to 1954	Coal, Fireclay
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
Bulwell Colliery A Babbington Coal Company pit at the top of Bulwell, which reached the Main Bright seam at 546 feet and closed in 1944.	Nottinghamshire	By 1869–August 1944	Coal
Bunker's Hill Colliery The pit had no cages: its tubs were slung on chains from eye bolts at each corner.	Staffordshire	from 1853	Coal
Burchells Colliery Clutton's last pit, where miners heard trains rumble overhead and gave up coal rations to feed the winding engine.	Somerset	c. 1911–August 1921	Coal
Burdon Main Colliery A North Shields colliery that worked the Low Main out under the Tyne by candlelight.	Tyne and Wear	1811–after 1860	Coal
Burgh Colliery A Chorley pit with its own tramway into town, where three girls were among the dead of 1846, after the 1842 Act had barred them.	Lancashire	by the 1820s	Coal
Burgham Mine One of the twelve sites in the Shropshire Mines Trust's field guide to the Stiperstones mines, also recorded elsewhere as Burgam or Burgum Mine.	Shropshire	to 1893 (abandonment plan)	Lead, Zinc, Barite
Burghlee Colliery A Loanhead pit that worked coal, ironstone and fireclay together, closed to make way for a super-pit	Midlothian	c. 1860–1964 (abandoned 1965)	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Buriton Chalk Pit Three chalk pits called France, Germany and the White pit, worked by gravity railway to a ring of kilns whose 145-foot chimney guided villagers home from the pub.	Hampshire	c. 1860–1939	Chalk, Limestone
Burley Pit Claimed by two collieries at once, and the report book was written up before the shift that blew.	Staffordshire	by 1878	Coal
Burngrange Oil Shale Mine A relatively new Scottish shale mine	Midlothian	1936–1962	Oil Shale
Burnhope Colliery Whellan found all the well-known Durham seams in its 837-acre royalty, and the owners had built the village's schools in 1855.	County Durham	From April 1850–22 July 1949	Coal
Burnopfield Colliery In January 1850 striking miners from Marley Hill blew up its boilers with gunpowder for supplying their coke ovens during the strike.	County Durham	1742–1968	Coal
Burnt Hills Colliery A moorland pit at Clow Bridge tied to the canal by three miles of tramroad.	Lancashire	1840s–1920	Coal
Burradon Colliery Its men had been warning about gas for weeks before the 1860 explosion, and the inquest that followed could not reach a verdict.	Northumberland	By 1858–November 1975	Coal
Burrow Farm Mine Its engine house was built from another failed mine's stone, to hold a second-hand engine from a third site — and got four years' use before the field closed for good	Somerset	1860 (shaft sunk)–1883	Iron
Bursledon Brickworks A brickworks kept whole because a motorway cut it in half — the surviving half is the last steam brickworks in the country.	Hampshire	1897–1974	Brick Clay
Burtersett Flag Stone Mine The returns call it flag stone, then slate and stone, then slate, then sandstone — the same rock renamed as the trade for it changed.	North Yorkshire	From 1882–1929	Flagstone, Sandstone
Burtree Pasture Mine Its 19th-century miners threw the fluorspar back into the old workings as waste, and 150 years later the Weardale Lead Company reopened the mine to dig it out.	County Durham	By 1800–c. 1980	Lead, Fluorspar
Bury St Edmunds Chalk Mines A 1964 housing estate was built over Victorian chalk mines, began to collapse within a few years, and was demolished almost to the last house.	Suffolk	Medieval–by the early 1870s	Chalk
Busbiehead Colliery A small Crosshouse pit where the inspector doubted a pitheadman's story after a fifteen-year-old was crushed coupling waggons.	East Ayrshire	By 1893–c. 1950	Coal, Fireclay
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
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
Butsfield Quarry Fourteen men on a moor-edge face, quarrying the silica rock that became the firebrick lining of the Consett furnaces.	County Durham	by 1922	Ganister
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
Butterworth Hall Colliery Milnrow's own pit, worked by the Oldham machine-makers Platt Brothers for more than forty years and joined by tramway to Tunshill.	Greater Manchester	1861 to 1864 (sinking)–1928	Coal
Buttery Hatch Colliery The level where Thomas Powell, founder of Powell Duffryn, was found to have mined under his neighbour's land.	Caerphilly	from c. 1833	Coal
Buxtons Colliery A 17-year-old collier, James Evans, died in a shaft incident here in December 1873, two years into the pit's first documented working.	Merthyr Tydfil	1871–1924	Coal
Bwa-Drain Mine A short-lived Ceredigion lead and silver mine, worked for less than a decade but raising over 1,300 tons of lead ore in that time.	Ceredigion	1867–1876	Lead, Silver
Bwlch Glas Mine The dedicated tramway built to serve this mine failed and closed years before Bwlch Glas's own real production began — its mill was later built directly on top of the abandoned trackbed.	Ceredigion	1880s–1923	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Bwlch-y-Garn Pit Crawshay Bailey's last and most modern Beaufort pit, the only one there wound by steam, with its own railway carrying the colliers to work.	Blaenau Gwent	November 1853–1877 or 1878	Coal, Iron
Bwlchgwyn Mine A Ystumtuen lead mine Lewis Morris thought could be worked almost without gunpowder, still draining metals into the Rheidol	Ceredigion	From 1735–early 20th century	Lead, Zinc
Bwllfa Dare Colliery A colliery that stopped producing coal in the 1930s still had a working role -- as an emergency escape route for its neighbour Mardy -- for another half-century after that, right up to 1989.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1853–1977	Coal
Bycars Colliery A Burslem colliery of the potters Enoch Wood and James Caldwell, where six died in 1859.	Staffordshire	By 1816–1915	Coal, Ironstone
Byermoor Colliery Of four rows of pit houses — Double Row, New Row, Pit Row and Furnace Row — only the manager's house is left.	Tyne and Wear	1860–1968	Coal
Byers Green Colliery A Bolckow, Vaughan coking colliery that passed through six owners in ninety years.	County Durham	1841 (sinking from 1840)–1931	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