MineArchiveMines
57 mines beginning with E, of 1950.
| Mine | Region | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Crag Mine Nine levels up a crag face, ore thrown down chutes and carried out by pony, cart and boat, and a lost vein of silver the valley still calls Watson's Loss. |
Cumbria | By 1784–1876 | Lead, Zinc |
| Eaglebrook Mine Renamed and promoted around 1850 as 'the Welsh Potosi' to inflate its share price -- a contemporary letter-writer's furious rebuttal, dismissing its ore heap as barely three wheelbarrow-loads, survives almost verbatim. |
Ceredigion | Before 1708–Closed for good in 1874 at a final depth of 50 fathoms. | Lead, Copper |
| Eaglesbush Colliery No artificial ventilation but a furnace at the surface, naked lights allowed, and each man responsible for his own lamp — twenty of thirty died in 1848. |
Neath Port Talbot | By 1802; a new pit sunk on the estate by 1845–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal |
| Earlseat Colliery Five Fife mines driven radially from one loading point, closed by water that ate the pumps. |
Fife | Mines Nos. 1-5 opened May 1903; NCB drift 1950–Mines closed September 1927; drift December 1958 | Coal |
| Earnock Colliery Reported as the first colliery in Scotland lit by electricity, in August 1881. |
South Lanarkshire | Working by 1881; returned to the Inspectors from 1894–Still shown on the 1936 Ordnance Survey; demolished since | Coal |
| Easdale Slate Quarries A thriving island slate industry ended almost overnight when a storm flooded the quarries below sea level in 1881 |
Argyll and Bute | 1745 (earlier working recorded from 1168)–1911 (Easdale quarries); wider Slate Islands industry to 1950s | Slate |
| Easington Colliery Easington's closure in 1993 brought deep mining in County Durham to an end after centuries — but the pit's defining moment had come forty years earlier, in the 1951 explosion still commemorated by 83 memorial trees, one for each life lost. |
County Durham | sinking begun 1899; first coal 1910–1993 | Coal |
| East Ardsley Colliery Three separate pits in the official returns for twenty years, one colliery afterwards, and a plaque on a grass verge for all of it. |
West Yorkshire | 1872 or 1876 (sources differ)–1966 or January 1968 (sources differ) | Coal, Ironstone |
| East Benhar Colliery Closed in 1957 not by exhaustion but by arithmetic and a safety report: output per man-shift had halved since nationalisation, and the union's own officer wrote that going further would endanger lives. |
West Lothian | c. 1938–September 1957 | Coal |
| East Blaina Red Ash Colliery Grew from 70 to 350 men within three years in the early 1930s, working the Brithdir seam for house coal. |
Blaenau Gwent | 1925 (after a contested 1924 court application)–Before 1947 (Nationalisation) | Coal |
| East Boscaswell Mine Its two surviving beam engine houses -- a whim engine house and a pump engine house -- gained UNESCO World Heritage status in 2006 as part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape. |
Cornwall | An old mine reopened in 1859 by a new company–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Tin |
| East Cannock Colliery The compensation paid out after the 1877 disaster says a great deal about the era: ten guineas for an injured miner, but fifteen for the horse he worked alongside. |
Staffordshire | 1876–1957 | Coal |
| East Gawber Colliery A demolished Barnsley pit whose Guibal fanhouse evasee still stands ten metres high. |
South Yorkshire | 1856–1921, or before 1922 | Coal |
| East Hetton Colliery To stop the 1897 flood the owners blew up an engine house and tipped it down the old Cassop shaft. |
County Durham | 1836–June 1983 | Coal |
| East Law Colliery A Carluke colliery returned in the official 1880 list of collieries at work under Loundon and Miller. |
South Lanarkshire | 1875–1881 (sequestration; colliery offered for sale the previous November) | Coal |
| East Pool Mine National Trust site with preserved beam engines |
Cornwall | 1698–1945 | Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Uranium |
| East Roman Gravels Mine A visitor in 1825 described its horizontal steam engine -- a 24-inch cylinder, 4-foot stroke rotary engine -- as 'one of the most perfect little rotary engines'; its later engine house survived only by being converted into a private dwelling in 1985. |
Shropshire | Worked from at least the 1770s under John Lawrence–1883 (final operator liquidated) | Lead |
| East Wheal Lovell Wendron's richest tin mine of the 1860s and 1870s, whose rich pipe of ore bred a crop of imitation mines. |
Cornwall | 1790s (as Tregonebris); East Wheal Lovell from 1859–1891 (1881 by one account) | Tin |
| East Wheal Rose The 9 July 1846 flood at East Wheal Rose remains the deadliest single mining disaster in Cornwall's history — a distinction the mine holds despite having recovered to work for another forty years afterward. |
Cornwall | lead discovered 1812; mine established 1834–1886 | Lead, Silver, Zinc |
| Eastern Quarry A quarter-mile square in 1940 and five times that by the mid-1950s, dug by steam navvies — and now the largest single building site of a garden city. |
Kent | By 1940–1990 | Chalk |
| Eastern United Colliery Forty-one million tons and a hoped-for two hundred years of working — undone by a fold in the strata that lost the seams almost as soon as they were opened. |
Forest of Dean | 1910–30 January 1959 | Coal |
| Easthouses Pit A Lothian Coal Company pit whose village was built for it in the 1920s and outlived it |
Midlothian | Extension Pit opened 1909–1980s | Coal |
| Easton Colliery A colliery in the middle of Bristol, closed by its owners in 1911 at the end of a three-month strike and never worked again. |
Bristol | c. 1830–1911 | Coal |
| Eccleston Quarry Stone for Blackpool Promenade, then a flooded pit where divers found the body that broke the Mr Asia gang. |
Lancashire | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Abandoned and flooded after the Second World War | Sandstone |
| Eckington Mine A modern drift mine that was the last colliery in production in north-east Derbyshire, and was sealed with a thousand tonnes of foamed concrete. |
Derbyshire | 1993–January 2019 | Coal |
| Ecton Copper Mines Deep and ancient workings in the Manifold Valley |
Staffordshire | Bronze Age–1891 | Copper, Lead, Zinc |
| Eden Colliery Consett Iron's Leadgate pit, sunk 1844 and closed 1980, whose 1927 Towneley drift explosion killed a father, his son and a 74-year-old overman. |
County Durham | 1844–18 July 1980 | Coal, Fireclay |
| Edmondsley Colliery The pit that made the village: Edmondsley barely existed before the colliery opened, and its owners built the school that outlasted the workings. |
County Durham | 1850s–30 November 1920 | Coal |
| Egton Quarry Two men working a wall of Mull basalt that stands over the Esk, five days' flow from a volcano 58 million years ago. |
North Yorkshire | Working by 1914–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Whinstone |
| Elba Colliery A drift mine that existed to feed its own steelworks, abandoned after an explosion killed eleven. |
Swansea | Drift developed 1881; reopened by 1896–Abandoned 1905; successor drift closed soon after 1911 | Coal |
| Eldin Colliery A small Bonnyrigg coal and fireclay pit remembered chiefly through two of its bricks, both found by collectors in St Petersburg. |
Midlothian | By 1874–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal, Fireclay |
| Eldon Hill Crushing Circle Threatened by an expanding quarry in 1989, the entire crushing circle was lifted onto a lorry, moved to safety at Dirtlow Rake and rebuilt there by volunteers from the Peak District Mines Historical Society. |
Derbyshire | Crushing circle believed 18th century in origin–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Lead |
| Elemore Colliery Nearly 150 years of working began with miners living in sod-built houses, and its 1826 winding engine survived in place until 1981. |
County Durham | 1825 (sinking); coal from 1833–February 1974 | Coal |
| Elerslie Mine The westernmost working in the Foxdale Mines' mineralised zone, near Crosby. |
Isle of Man | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Lead |
| Ellerbeck Colliery Closed once, reopened, nationalised, modernised, and hit its best-ever year in 1958 — only to close for good seven years later as demand for coal fell away nationally. |
Lancashire | 1876–August 1965 (with a closure and reopening in between) | Coal |
| Ellesmere Colliery Stopped raising coal in 1921 but kept its shafts working for another 47 years — purely to keep the water out of its neighbours' mines. |
Greater Manchester | 1865–Coal winding 1921; pumping to 1968 | Coal |
| Ellington Colliery The last deep coal mine of the Great North Coalfield, closed abruptly in 2005 after a catastrophic flood burst through a new coal face and left £8 million of equipment entombed underground. |
Northumberland | sunk 1909; sinking completed 1913–26 January 2005 | Coal |
| Elliot Colliery A Rhymney Valley colliery whose 1891 steam winding engine unusually kept hauling coal and men right up to closure in 1967, decades after most collieries went electric. |
Caerphilly | West shaft sunk 1883-85; East shaft sunk 1888-90–West Pit closed 1962; colliery closed 29 April 1967 | Coal |
| Ellistown Colliery The largest colliery in the eastern basin of the Leicestershire field, sunk into nine feet of Lower Main coal with no faulting to speak of — and its pumping engine kept working until 1975 because it also supplied the town’s water. |
Leicestershire | 1874–1991 | Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone |
| Elm Colliery Two shafts of one colliery, working different seams, whose workforces crossed over: as one fell from 482 to 152 the other rose from 104 to 364. |
Flintshire | 1870s–1934 | Coal |
| Elms Colliery A small coal pit at Nailsea, Somerset, also known as Middle Engine Pit, serving the local glass-making industry. |
Somerset | 1829–1850s | Coal |
| Elphingstone Colliery Gave evidence to the 1842 Commission: a coal putter of eight, a filler of nine, six women and girls of nine workers. |
East Lothian | Working by 1842; sinking date not established–Last return 1920; closure date not established | Coal |
| Elsecar Colliery The Fitzwilliam colliery whose 1795 Newcomen engine is the only one left anywhere in the world on the spot it was built for. |
South Yorkshire | 1794–1923 (Newcomen engine); pits later | Coal |
| Elterwater Quarry One Lake District slate colour — pale green, with its own distinctive markings — that comes from exactly one place. |
Cumbria | Worked since at least the mid-19th century–Still active | Slate |
| Elwyn Colliery From about 1991 physically joined underground to the neighbouring Graig y Fforest No.2 Colliery (Pinetrees), whose coal then came out through Elwyn's own drift. |
Neath Port Talbot | 1955–1993 | Coal |
| Emlyn Colliery An anthracite drift mine at the head of the Gwendraeth Fawr, cut off from its neighbour underground by the Hendre fault. |
Carmarthenshire | 1882–March 1939 | Anthracite |
| Emmer Green (Hanover) Chalk Mine The miners took the flint out and sold it, and left the chalk waste piled across the galleries behind them. |
Berkshire | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Chalk, Flint |
| Engine Vein The deep open scar left by its own working proved so tempting to unofficial explorers that the National Trust had it capped in 1981, specifically to stop them getting in through the collapsed opencast. |
Cheshire | Bronze Age; Roman working of Pot Shaft in the 1st century AD–Worked until 1877; possibly reworked in 1911 and 1919 | Copper |
| Eppleton Colliery In 1836 candles were preferred to the Davy lamp because they gave a better light; in 1951 the ignition came from a faulty control box on a coal-loading machine. |
Tyne and Wear | 1833–1986 | Coal, Fireclay |
| Erglodd Mine A lead and zinc mine whose site was worked for copper in the Bronze Age and smelted lead under the protection of a Roman military fortlet, long before its recorded 18th-19th century mining history. |
Ceredigion | Late 18th century (Bronze Age/Roman activity earlier -- see history)–c. 1883 | Lead, Zinc |
| Esgair Hir and Esgair Fraith Mines Known as the 'Welsh Potosi'; its 1689 legal case broke the Crown's monopoly on mining silver and gold |
Powys | 1691–1904 | Lead, Copper |
| Esgair Mwyn Mine Few British lead mines can claim to have drawn in the direct personal investment of Robert Clive of India — one of the most consequential, and most controversial, figures in 18th-century British imperial history, briefly a stakeholder in a remote Cardiganshire hillside. |
Ceredigion | ancient origins (unknown date); rediscovered 1746–1994 (final spoil-reprocessing closure); main lead working ended 1927 | Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc |
| Eskett Pit A man who fell down the shaft in 1876 was missed only when his bait bottle was found left at the eye. |
Cumbria | In the returns from 1882–Abandonment plan lodged 1913 | Iron |
| Eston Ironstone Mines Two men walking in the hills in June 1850 found the outcrop that turned Middlesbrough from a village into an iron town — and named the settlement that grew up around the workings California, after the gold rush. |
North Yorkshire | Trial quarrying from August 1850; Upsall pit opened 1851–September 1949 | Iron |
| Excelsior Mine For eighteen months in 1959-60, a nearly abandoned Victorian drainage tunnel on a Cornish hillside became a live testing ground for Cold War nuclear-detection science — decades after the last tin miner had given up on reaching the shaft it was originally dug to drain. |
Cornwall | early 1850s–1946 (mining); 1938 (tunnel driving) | Tin, Copper, Tungsten |
| Exhall Colliery A pit-top fire in 1915 that killed fourteen men underground without touching the workings. |
Warwickshire | Working by 1894; earlier date not established–Still returning 130 people in 1947; closure date not established | Coal |
| Eylesbarrow Mine Dartmoor's largest documented tin mine, unique on the moor for building its own smelting house to process ore brought in from other Dartmoor workings. |
Devon | 1814-15 (sett granted 1814, extraction from February 1815)–1852 (Wheal Katherine continued to 1856) | Tin |