Mines

Region

Commodity

231 mines beginning with B, of 1950.

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
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
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	Sunk 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–deep mining ceased 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	First shaft sunk from 1899; production from 1912–2 March 1968	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
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	Sinking 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	worked before 1819 (earlier phase, abandoned); revived 1862–1895	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	Working by 1880–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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); 1730s (organised export)–1967 (Craigfad Mine, final closure)	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–Abandoned 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	uncertain (mining district from 1857)–1920s (underground); opencast later	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	Returned from 1905; the parish worked coal from the 13th century–Coal about 1927; pumping into the 1950s	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
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	Built by Robert Mower in 1618–Closed 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
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
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
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, worked intensively from the medieval period–c. 1500 (stone exhausted)	Limestone
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	Sinking started 1911; Barnsley seam reached 1914–16 June 1989	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	Shown on the 1892 map as part of Rylands Main–1991	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	Sunk from 1907; coal reached 1912–1989	Coal
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	Site acquired 1914; first kiln in production July 1927–10 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 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, possibly much earlier–1908	Gypsum
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 (discontinued); working again into the 1920s	Coal
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
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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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–Between 1873 and 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	opened 1903 (iron working in the district since the 12th century)–3 October 1980 (combined with Florence Mine from 1969)	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 (main working); arsenic to 1920s	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 '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	Sunk 1878; first coal 1881–1956	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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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); 1919-21 (working began)–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	Working by 1826; engine shaft sunk 1836–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
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
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–Disused by 1891	Slate
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	Leased 1853; production from 1855–Production ended 1921; lease to 1931	Ironstone
Belowda Mine A tin mine on a granite beacon in mid-Cornwall, its engine house, boiler house and smithy all still standing.	Cornwall	Late 19th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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
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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	Recorded working in 1818–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	Proving borehole 1895; sinking from 1904-06; coaling from 1908–December 1993	Coal
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–uncertain (declining by 1882)	Lead
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
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); 1874 (main coal production)–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); 1927 (first coal)–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
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	development 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	Sunk from the late 1950s; production from July 1965–7 May 1993	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	First shaft sunk c.1830; Nos. 1 and 2 shafts from 1872; deepened 1877–13 March 1992	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 (pigment); commercial mining from the 1760s–1969	Mineral Black, Coal
Big Pit Now Wales's National Coal Museum, with underground tours led by former miners	Torfaen	1880–1980	Coal, Iron
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
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
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	Sinking began in July 1925 under the Stanton Ironworks Co. Ltd–Closed in 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	Sunk from 1952; production from 1963–1989	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
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
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)–By the end of the 14th century	Limestone
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–Pits about 1932; coke works July 1973	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	Worked by the early 19th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Limestone
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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–uncertain (district closed 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–Not working by 1888	Iron
Birley Collieries The pit stopped drawing coal in 1943 and spent its last years teaching Bevin Boys how to mine.	South Yorkshire	Birley West from the 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
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 Vein Colliery The Risca pit called the death pit, whose seam gave its name to the coalfield's most feared coal	Caerphilly	Shafts sunk 1840; at work by 1842–1921	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 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	Begun 1855–Driving abandoned 1903	Lead
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	Sunk from 1909; coal drawing began 1914–16 April 1981	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; 1844 (industrial phase)–1885	Lead
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
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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–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	trial workings 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	1930–1990	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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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 (leased 1788, furnaces blown in 1789)–Iron production ceased 1904	Iron, Coal
Blaenclydach Colliery The engineman blacked out, the brake came off, and ninety men went down the drift with nothing holding them.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Levels from the early 1860s–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
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
Blaenhirwaun Colliery A compressed-air fan blade struck sparks off stone, and a face in the Lower Pumpquart went up.	Carmarthenshire	Shafts sunk at the end of the 19th century–1 September 1962	Anthracite
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	Sunk 1890–28 August 1985	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	Operations commenced around 1830.–Closed during the 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
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 (ironstone); new shafts 1906–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); 1821 (smelt mill)–1878	Lead
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	1938 (fluorspar); lead worked here from 1725–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	Sinking 1894–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
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
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	Sunk 1924-26 by the Newstead Colliery Co. Ltd.–Closed on 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	Coal, ironstone and fireclay were worked here from the 1770s.–Closed in 1941.	Coal, Iron, Fireclay
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 Documented from at least 1766; possibly worked earlier	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 as a quarry; mined from 1898–1920	Gypsum
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
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	opened 1957-59 (sources differ on the exact year)–1985-86 (sources differ on the exact year)	Coal
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	Millstone quarrying for over 600 years; reopened 1901–c. 1914 (dam contract)	Sandstone
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
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–Working ceased by the mid-19th century	Lead
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); later fluorspar recovery	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 (shafts sunk); in the Lists of Mines from 1873–1887 (the Durham Mining Museum gives 1886)	Ironstone
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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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); 1914 (slate)	Lead, Slate
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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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 (absorbed into Wheal Cunning United)	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 (Nos. 1 and 2); Nos. 3 and 4 sunk 1889–1959	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
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	Working by 1888–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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 (coal); earlier ironstone working–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 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
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
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); working at Braich Goch from 1836–1970 or 1971	Slate
Bramcrag Quarry The furthest of the seven Threlkeld microgranite quarries, reached by extending the quarry railway up the vale	Cumbria	Later 19th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	Worked since at least 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	worked by the 1560s (Elizabethan); reopened on a larger scale in 1819–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 (earliest working); revived post-medieval period–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 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); 1863 (Hutchinson)–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
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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Before 1947	Coal
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
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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal, Fireclay
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 (Grange colliery); North Engine Pit 1777–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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); 1963 (Brightling)	Gypsum, Anhydrite
Brightside Lead Mine Its ore bins are the only originals of their kind left standing anywhere in the Derbyshire orefield.	Derbyshire	Working before 1853 (adit predates steam phase)–Ceased by the mid-19th century	Lead
Brimpts Tin Mine A Dartmoor tin working near Dartmeet, with North and South Mine sections.	Devon	c.1500 (streamworking); 1787 (organised mining)–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
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	Sunk 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	First recorded around 1800–1916	Copper
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
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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Pumping engine sold 1852	Lead
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	Neolithic, c. 3800 BC–c. 2500 BC (end of Neolithic axe production)	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	sunk October 1905 - 1907–7 September 1990	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	1890s–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
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
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	Coal recorded at Brora from 1529; first shaft sunk 1598–1974	Coal
Broughton Colliery The man who owned the hall sank the pit a hundred yards from his own front door.	Wrexham	Old colliery sunk 1835; New Broughton 1883–New Broughton 1910; Broughton Hall 1978	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
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
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	Shafts sunk 1863–65; colliery returned from 1894–1929; shafts filled 1946	Coal
Brunton Bank Quarry A small disused quarry beside Hadrian's Wall that is the type locality of a fossil named after it.	Northumberland	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Disused by 1969, when the site was notified	Limestone, Sandstone
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 (surface digging from the 15th century)–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
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 the 1840s; new entrance 1894–1950 (last seams abandoned)	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, or 1913	Coal
Bryngwiog Lead Mine Sixteen drowned on a Saturday in 1862 when the workings holed into flooded old ground on Halkyn Mountain.	Flintshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
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 pits; substantial 18th-century working from 1764–Worked into the 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	Late 1830s or early 1840s–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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
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 (as Mountsorrel Quarry)	Granite
Bullcliffe Wood Colliery A small Yorkshire drift mine that changed its name in 1948 and its whole identity in 1985.	West Yorkshire	Sinking started 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
Bullhouse Colliery A small Pennine pit whose drainage tunnel outlived it, and stained the Don orange.	South Yorkshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Sources differ: 1915 or 1918 for workings; still returned in 1954	Coal, Fireclay
Bunker's Hill Colliery The pit had no cages: its tubs were slung on chains from eye bolts at each corner.	Staffordshire	Sunk 1853–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–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
Burngrange Oil Shale Mine A relatively new Scottish shale mine	Midlothian	1936–1962	Oil Shale
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	In the returns from 1882–Still returning sandstone in 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
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 (part of the wider Dowlais Collieries group)	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
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