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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Habergham Colliery The Hargreaves' Arley pit on the Padiham road at Burnley, sunk in the late 1860s, wound through Gannow, and closed for lack of men in 1941.	Lancashire	1854–1941	Coal
Hafan Mine Served by the short-lived Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway, a steam-worked line that carried both passengers and ore, and whose deep adit still holds an underground headframe and ore cages, accessible today only to cavers.	Ceredigion	c. 1620–1889–90	Lead, Copper, Zinc
Hafna Mine A stepped mill built into the hillside so gravity did the moving, with its smelt house and round chimney still standing — the best-preserved thing in the Gwydir orefield.	Conwy	to about 1915	Lead, Zinc, Pyrite
Hafod Colliery Struck by a fatal explosion in 1873 caused, according to the inquiry, by its own master dataller improperly opening his safety lamp to inspect a newly built ventilation door.	Wrexham	1863–1968	Coal
Hafod Van Colliery A Six Bells level colliery of the 1850s, owned by the Partridge, Jones company, which supplied house coal when Llanhilleth stopped in 1896.	Blaenau Gwent	c. 1851–April 1928	Coal
Hafod y Llan Copper Mine One of the Cwm Llan copper mines on Snowdon's south side, worked alongside Braich yr Oen and the Hafod y Llan slate quarry.	Gwynedd	By 1825–1880s	Copper, Lead
Hafod y Llan Slate Quarry Snowdon's own slate quarry, whose 'heroic' incline and tramway still dominate Cwm Llan beside the Watkin Path.	Gwynedd	1840s–1889	Slate
Hafod y Porth Copper Mine A small Snowdonia copper mine whose buildings survive almost complete, sold to investors under four names in its last thirty years.	Gwynedd	By 1755–1890	Copper, Lead
Hafod-y-Wern Slate Quarry A Gwyrfai valley slate quarry that grew with the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway and closed in the mid-1920s.	Gwynedd	By 1878–mid-1920s	Slate
Hafodlas Quarry The site of the first steam pumping engine ever used in the history of the North Wales slate industry, installed here in 1807 -- and, ten years later, of that same innovation's dramatic failure, when the pump and two whimsies fell sixty yards into the quarry and flooded the workings within days.	Gwynedd	from Working by the early 19th century	Slate
Hafodyrynys Colliery Rebuilt in the 1950s in a strikingly modern style borrowed from a Bauhaus architect's German collieries — all that's left of it now is a single listed settling tank.	Caerphilly	By 1878-80–1966	Coal
Hafotty Manganese Mine A single new steelmaking process, the Bessemer converter, could turn a thin, steeply dipping seam of ore on a Welsh hillside into a going commercial concern almost overnight — and, just as quickly, cheaper foreign ore could turn it back into a ruin.	Gwynedd	December 1885–1894 (underground)	Manganese
Haig Colliery Cumbria's last deep coal mine; its workings ran nearly five miles out under the Irish Sea	Cumbria	1914-18 (sinking)–1986	Coal
Halamanning Mine A St Hilary tin and copper mine whose adventurers James Watt took to Chancery in 1794 over the premiums on their steam engines.	Cornwall	By 1794–1858 (reworked 1912)	Tin, Copper
Halbeath Colliery A Fife colliery of the 1730s whose timber wagon road to Inverkeithing carried its coal to the salt pans and to Leith for the Edinburgh market.	Fife	by 1738	Coal
Halesfield Pit Once its own coal ran down, its shafts found a second working life as ventilation for the neighbouring, much longer-lived Kemberton pit.	Shropshire	from 1930s (as an ironstone and coal mine)	Coal, Iron
Halkyn Mountain Extensive drainage-level network beneath the mountain	Flintshire	Bronze Age–1987	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Hall End Colliery, West Bromwich A West Bromwich pit whose 1884 fire at naked candles fed calls to make safety lamps compulsory in gassy seams.	West Midlands	by 1884	Coal
Hallenbeagle Mine Its Grade II-listed engine house is officially designated "part of Great Wheal Busy" rather than under its own name — a paper trail of a real joint working with the mine next door	Cornwall	By 1835–c. 1867–1870	Copper, Tin
Hallside Colliery The Clyde Iron Works' colliery at Newton, Cambuslang, worked by James Dunlop and Co. from 1873 to 1920 with half its men in the owners' houses.	South Lanarkshire	1873–1920	Coal
Halsnead Colliery A Whiston colliery on a country estate, where an underground fire in 1880 defied every attempt to put it out.	Merseyside	1802–1895	Coal
Ham Hill Quarries Quarrying has so reworked the hilltop that the Iron Age hillfort now stands in a warren of stony ridges and hollows — and two quarries are still cutting the stone.	Somerset	Roman period–Still active	Limestone
Hamilton Palace Colliery The colliery's own coal lay beneath Hamilton Palace itself -- one of the grandest stately homes in Scotland -- and mining it out in 1915 so undermined the building's foundations that the Duke of Hamilton had no choice but to have the 300-year-old palace demolished.	South Lanarkshire	1884–May 1959	Coal
Hammerwich Colliery Named for the reservoir it stood beside, Chasewater, which was built to feed the canals that carried away its coal and long outlived the colliery itself as a leisure landmark.	Staffordshire	from 1849	Coal
Hamstead Colliery The deepest mine in the world when it opened, its expertise sought by American engineers building their own deep mines — until a 1908 fire made it infamous for a very different reason.	West Midlands	1875–1965	Coal
Hamsteels Colliery Four thin seams, two shallow shafts and three drifts turning three quarters of their coal into coke on the spot.	County Durham	1867 (the museum gives 1868)–1958	Coal
Hamsterley Colliery A Derwent valley pit of 1864 to 1968 whose village kept the name Hamsterley Colliery and outlived it, against a county plan that expected it to die.	County Durham	1864–2 February 1968	Coal
Handen Hold Colliery It began as a six-foot staple sunk in 1857 and was still working pit ponies in the 1950s.	County Durham	1860–1968	Coal
Handsworth Colliery Sheffield's Handsworth pit, sunk in 1903 for the Nunnery Colliery Company, which employed nearly 1,500 men in the 1950s and pumped water for years after it closed.	South Yorkshire	1903–October 1967	Coal
Hangman's Wood Deneholes Victorian antiquarians nicknamed these shafts 'Cunobeline's gold mines', after an ancient British king — the truth turned out to be far less romantic: they were most likely dug by medieval farmers chasing nothing more glamorous than fertiliser.	Essex	Medieval or post-medieval (exact date disputed)–by the 19th century	Chalk
Hanham Colliery Built on the site of a former brass-manufacturing works, and never connected to the rail network, moving its coal instead by barge on the River Avon.	Bristol	By 1872–1926	Coal
Hanley Deep Pit North Staffordshire's deepest pit, whose spoil heaps became Central Forest Park.	Staffordshire	1854–1962	Coal
Hanwood Colliery The last colliery of Shropshire's small Hanwood coalfield, where miners walked over two miles to an eighteen-inch seam.	Shropshire	By 1873–1942	Coal, Fireclay
Hapton Valley Colliery The last deep mine on the Burnley Coalfield; site of a 1962 explosion that killed 19 men	Lancashire	early 1850s–1982	Coal
Harbour House Drift A 1930s drift at Low Cocken that briefly employed over 350 before it closed in the late 1950s.	County Durham	1938–April 1957 or April 1958	Coal
Hardshins Lead Mine A Westmorland fell-side lead mine with a Garrigill address, worked by the London Lead Company's successors with eleven men and given up as unprofitable in 1890.	Cumbria	By 1870s–May 1890	Lead
Harehope Gill Mine Two of the biggest names in North Pennine lead mining -- the London Lead Company and the Beaumont Company -- both worked this one small gill in turn, decades apart.	County Durham	1796–1890	Lead, Fluorspar
Hareshaw Head Colliery A Bellingham family pit that stayed outside the National Coal Board until its last shift in 1952.	Northumberland	1841–17 September 1952	Coal
Harpur Hill Quarry Britain's largest wartime chemical weapons store stood in a lime quarry — and the quarry's own waste now makes a turquoise lagoon caustic enough that the council keeps dyeing it black.	Derbyshire	c. 1835–c. 1952	Limestone
Harraton Colliery Coal recorded here in 1594, Scottish soldiers holding it in the Civil War, and a song written about its closure in 1965.	Tyne and Wear	Before 1794–1965	Coal
Harriseahead Colliery A tiny colliery under Mow Cop where Primitive Methodism's founder once sold pit props, and whose manager and a miner won Edward Medals in 1924 wading through an inrush.	Staffordshire	By 1831–July 1939	Coal
Harrow Hill Flint Mines A Sussex Downs flint mine of some 245 shafts, worked from about 3710 BC, with a later Bronze Age enclosure built over its southern edge.	West Sussex	from c. 3710 BC	Flint
Harry Crofts Colliery Sunk over two years, in production for barely one, and beaten by the ground it was sunk into.	South Yorkshire	1924–1926–1930	Coal
Hartford Colliery A Cramlington pit group on the River Blyth, sunk from 1858, electrified by Hartley Main in the 1930s and closed in 1961.	Northumberland	1858–24 February 1961	Coal
Hartington Colliery Named for the pumping engine that made it, and kept at work for sixty years after its coal ran out because the district would have drowned without it.	Derbyshire	1855-58 (as New Hollingwood)–1927 (pumping long after)	Coal
Hartley Colliery (Hester Pit) New Hartley's single shaft was meant to be the mine's lifeline for coal, men, pumping and air all at once — the same design that made it efficient to build was exactly what turned one broken beam into a tomb for 204 people.	Northumberland	1845-46–1862	Coal
Harton Colliery The shaft where the Astronomer Royal weighed the Earth with a pendulum in 1854.	Tyne and Wear	1841 (sinking)–25 July 1969	Coal
Hartshay Colliery The Butterley Company's Hartshay Colliery north of Marehay, linked to Butterley ironworks by tramway and closed in 1931.	Derbyshire	By 1835–1931	Coal
Hartside Mine One man in 1921, ten in 1948, at two thousand feet in a wind that averages fifty miles an hour.	Cumbria	By 1921–1950	Barite
Hartsop Hall Mine Its dressing waste killed the fish and cattle of Hartsop Hall's tenant, and the quarrel stopped the mine in 1870; seventy years later it was the war, then the National Trust, that stopped it for good.	Cumbria	By 1684–1942	Lead, Silver
Hartwoodhill Colliery A Shotts colliery that fed its own shale-oil works in the 1860s and became a Shotts Iron Company pit of nearly 300 men before its abandonment in 1914.	North Lanarkshire	By 1868–1914	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Harwood Colliery A short-lived post-war drift mine on a West Lothian hill, its entrances now standing among wind turbines.	West Lothian	1945 or 1946–1959	Coal
Harworth Colliery Its Barnsley-seam coal fuelled the Flying Scotsman on its record-breaking 1932 run.	Nottinghamshire	1913 (sinking)–2006	Coal
Haslowfield Mine A Via Gellia lead level that kept its herringbone roof supports, stone stemples and wooden rails	Derbyshire	from 18th century	Lead
Hassockrigg Colliery A Coltness Iron Company pit between Shotts and Harthill, worked from the 1870s until 1962.	North Lanarkshire	By 1876–1962	Coal
Haswell Colliery Ninety-five of the ninety-nine men and boys below ground died in 1844, and the inquest's 'no blame' verdict left their families without a claim on the owners.	County Durham	1835–31 December 1896	Coal
Hatfield Main Colliery This pit closed and reopened three separate times across three decades before finally shutting in 2015 as one of the last deep coal mines still working anywhere in Britain.	South Yorkshire	14 October 1911–June 2015	Coal
Hattonrigg Colliery The Bellshill pit where an overwound cage fell 192 fathoms with eight men in 1910.	North Lanarkshire	by 1870	Coal, Fireclay
Haughhead Colliery A fiery Hamilton pit where gas let out from behind a stopping killed three men in 1867.	South Lanarkshire	1860s–1886	Coal
Haunchwood Colliery Three generations of Nowells owned it and all three died suddenly of heart failure before reaching fifty — and the pit outlived them by sixty years through its second shaft, Tunnel Colliery.	Warwickshire	1855 (recorded working from 1729)–1967	Coal
Hauxley Colliery A pit of 1926 designed from scratch for machinery, and praised in 1931 for being unencumbered by older workings.	Northumberland	1926–26 November 1966	Coal
Hawkins Colliery A family pit at Cheslyn Hay for nearly a century, where a 1900 cage accident sent its winder to trial.	Staffordshire	c. 1840–April 1960	Coal, Ironstone
Hawkmoor Mine A four-shaft Tamar copper mine kept going by calls on 8,192 shareholders beside the richest mine in Europe.	Cornwall	1846–1867	Copper, Tin
Hawthorn Combined Mine A modern National Coal Board colliery and coke works near Murton, opened in 1960 - its coke works replacing Shotton's - and closed in 1992.	County Durham	1960–1992	Coal
Hay Head Quarry The Walsall limestone quarries that gave their name to the Barr Limestone and the Barr Trilobite	West Midlands	By 1593–by 1865	Limestone
Haycraigs Mines A fiery shale mine whose chimney was struck by lightning that then ran down the winding rope into the workings.	West Lothian	By 1882–1919	Oil Shale
Haydock Colliery Twenty collieries under one company, one of England's worst-ever mining disasters, and a set of locomotives advanced enough to be museum pieces today — Richard Evans & Co's Haydock empire had all three.	Lancashire	18th century–1975	Coal
Hayeswood Colliery A Somerset pit that broke into flooded old workings in 1845 and drowned eleven men and boys.	Somerset	c. 1750–c. 1862	Coal
Hayside Colliery A Kilmarnock pit that made its own firebricks from the clay it raised with the coal, and ended its days pumping water for a pottery.	East Ayrshire	By 1873–early 1900s	Coal, Fireclay
Haytor Granite Quarry Haytor's tramway is a genuine one-off: rather than importing the iron rails a normal horse tramway would use, its builders simply carved the rails themselves out of the same granite the trucks were hauling — turning the transport infrastructure into a product of the quarry it served.	Devon	1820–1858	Granite
Haytor Iron Mine A magnetite 'lode stone' mine known since the sixteenth century, which gave its name to the pseudo-mineral haytorite.	Devon	By 16th century–after 1918	Iron
Haywood Colliery Two companies went under working it inside six years, and the plant went to auction in 1890.	Gloucestershire	1841–1888	Coal
Hazard Colliery The bigger of the two North Hetton pits, whose workforce doubled in the six years after it was joined with Moorsley in 1915.	Tyne and Wear	1818–1935	Coal
Hazard Mine A fragment of its belland yard wall still stands — the wall that kept livestock off ground poisoned by lead.	Derbyshire	from Post-medieval	Lead, Calcite
Hazlehead Colliery A moorland pit beside the Hepworth Iron Company's works at Crow Edge that lasted barely a year into nationalisation.	South Yorkshire	1884–February 1948	Coal
Hazlerigg Colliery Sunk in 1892, it created the village that still carries its name; the spoil hills and subsidence ponds it left behind are now a nature reserve.	Tyne and Wear	1892–1964	Coal, Fireclay
Headington Quarry Nine Oxford colleges once owned their own quarries at Headington — meaning some of the university's grandest buildings were, quite literally, dug out of ground the colleges already owned.	Oxfordshire	1396–1949	Freestone
Headless Cross Colliery A sixty-man Shotts pit that reached the National Coal Board in 1947 and was abandoned six years later.	North Lanarkshire	By 1873 (No. 1, Dymock)–1953 (No. 2 plan)	Coal
Headon Quarry Sits on the same edge of the Dartmoor granite as the Hemerdon tungsten mine, its surviving engine house dating to around 1907.	Devon	c. 1860–Still active	China Clay
Healey Cote Colliery A small pit near Rothbury, sunk in 1915, where a roof fall in 1924 killed a fifteen-year-old and a deputy.	Northumberland	1915–7 May 1935	Coal
Healey Lane Colliery An Ossett pit whose founding partner was, twelve years on, working as a colliery weighman after his bankruptcy.	West Yorkshire	1876–1899	Coal
Healeyfield Mine A Dene Howl lead mine whose reservoir is listed as a rare survivor of an industry that once ran this country.	County Durham	Working by the late 18th century–1930	Lead, Ganister
Heathfield Colliery, Wolverhampton A Wolverhampton pit whose 1848 explosion, killing sixteen, ended in a manslaughter verdict against the doggy.	West Midlands	by 1848	Coal
Heaton Colliery The bricks say G. Heaton, Shipley — and the maker was a Lancastrian who happened to share the township's name.	West Yorkshire	from From 1855	Coal, Fireclay
Heaton Main Colliery A memorial spinney has a tree for each of the 75 men and boys drowned in 1815.	Tyne and Wear	1792–1852	Coal
Hebburn Colliery A Tyneside colliery so gas-ridden that Humphry Davy sampled its firedamp in 1815 while developing the miners' safety lamp — and one that had already suffered three major explosions by the time he did.	Tyne and Wear	1792–1932	Coal
Hebden Mines A Wharfedale lead mine that used compressed-air rock drills, unusual in Yorkshire, and whose royalties rebuilt the village below.	North Yorkshire	1810-20 (levels)–1888	Lead
Heddon Colliery A Heddon pit that in 1784 became the first in the coal trade to screen its coal mechanically.	Northumberland	By 1590–1 September 1933	Coal, Fireclay
Hedley Colliery The upper-seam pit of the South Moor collieries, which with its Charley Pit employed over 1,100 in 1925.	County Durham	By 1883–after 1958	Coal
Hedleyhill Colliery A Weardale Iron and Coal Company pit in the Deerness Valley whose beehive coke ovens are among the most complete in the North East.	County Durham	By 1873–1925 (drifts until 1965)	Coal, Fireclay
Hedleyhope Colliery Sir Bernhard Samuelson's Hedleyhope colliery near Tow Law, worked with East Hedley Hope for coking coal.	County Durham	1836–December 1945	Coal
Heights Pasture Mine A Weardale iron mine whose vuggy flats turned out to hold emerald-green fluorite up to four centimetres across	County Durham	from 1850 (Weardale Iron Company)	Lead, Fluorspar, Iron
Hem Heath Colliery Its No. 2 shaft went down over 1,000 yards — for a time the third deepest in Britain — and it took a freezing plant twice to get through the water on the way.	Staffordshire	1924–October 1993	Coal
Hemerdon Mine One of the largest tungsten deposits in the world; reopened in 2015 after 45 years idle, then closed again in 2018	Devon	1867 (discovery)–1944 (early workings)	Tungsten, Tin
Hemingfield Colliery Benjamin Biram's laboratory: a fan, a bypass shaft and cage winding tried out here in the 1840s, and the pithead still standing.	South Yorkshire	1842 (sinking)–15 May 1920	Coal
Hemsworth Colliery Sunk as Fitzwilliam Main and worked for ninety years under a dozen owners, it lost five men to firedamp in its first year, when the manager still allowed naked lights.	West Yorkshire	1876–1880 (sinking)–July 1967 (merged into South Kirkby)	Coal
Hemsworthy Mine The engine shaft that drained Haytor Consols is now the ground beneath a Dartmoor car park, with the shafts of three lodes in the heather either side of the road.	Devon	1840s–c. 1856	Tin
Hendre Mine Where the Halkyn lead district ended up, and where it finally stopped in 1987	Flintshire	From 1931–1977 (lead)	Lead, Zinc, Limestone
Hendreddu Quarry Worked the Narrow Vein -- reckoned the finest-quality slate vein in the whole Abercorris group -- and specialised accordingly in slab slate for high-value uses such as billiard-table beds and electrical switchboards, rather than ordinary roofing slate.	Gwynedd	1856–1941	Slate
Hendreforgan Colliery In the 1820s it hauled coal underground with a George Stephenson engine and used its steam to ventilate a divided shaft, a system other collieries copied.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1812–About 1924	Coal
Hendreladais Colliery Six men were killed in August 1892 when a runaway man-riding carriage crashed at the foot of the incline; the mine was later absorbed into Yniscedwyn Colliery.	Powys	from c.1840	Coal
Hendy Merthyr Colliery Drift mines at the head of the Clydach whose trams were hauled up the valley by narrow-gauge steam locomotives.	Swansea	1927–11 November 1960	Coal
Henllys Colliery A mountain-top pit that fed a brickworks making nearly three million firebricks a year for the iron trade.	Torfaen	c.1815–1928	Coal, Fireclay
Henllys Vale Colliery One of the most northerly anthracite slants in the coalfield; its exceptionally tall Victorian chimney survives, restored as a listed structure.	Neath Port Talbot	c.1890–1918	Coal
Henwaun Colliery Twin pits at Blaina sunk in the 1850s to feed the ironworks; a rope break killed three in 1855 and an explosion five in 1882.	Blaenau Gwent	Early 1850s (1856 by another account)–1922	Coal, Ironstone
Heol Senni Quarry The only place in the world where one extinct jawless fish has ever been found — and now a paragliding site.	Powys	from 19th century	Sandstone
Hepscott Colliery A Morpeth-district pit whose 1865 coal and air shafts stood side by side, later worked from the Isabella Pit until 1924.	Northumberland	By 1865–1924/25	Coal
Herbertshire Colliery A tampered safety lamp, a runaway shortcut through a dry, dusty coal-dust seam, and a criminal indictment — the 1893 inquiry into this colliery's explosion reads almost like a detective case	Falkirk	By 1886–1959	Coal, Iron
Herdshill Colliery A Coltness Iron Company mine whose 340 men in 1910 were scattered across a dozen villages, most in rented houses.	North Lanarkshire	by 1866	Coal, Fireclay
Herland Mine Herland's engine house saw a remarkable sequence of the era's most advanced pumping technology pass through it in barely a century — an early Newcomen-type engine in the 1720s, Cornwall's largest single-acting Boulton & Watt engine in the 1790s, and finally a Trevithick engine in 1815 — a working timeline of steam power's entire formative period at one modest Cornish mine.	Cornwall	worked from at least 1726–1874	Copper, Silver
Herm Silver Mine A Channel Islands silver venture that lasted barely a year, launched by the promoter of Sark's silver mine on the strength of ores shown in a Guernsey office.	Herm	1837–1838	Silver, Copper, Lead
Herodsfoot Mine Herodsfoot's lodes produced some of the finest 'cogwheel' bournonite specimens ever found in Britain, and pieces from the mine's 1850-1875 heyday remain prized in mineral collections around the world to this day.	Cornwall	Early 1700s–1884	Lead, Silver
Herrington Colliery A Lambton pit at New Herrington that raised four different classes of coal at once, and worked for 111 years without a disaster.	Tyne and Wear	1874–1985	Coal, Fireclay
Hesleyside Colliery A North Tyne pit whose coal was sold for cooking and baking, worked in the 1930s by one man alone.	Northumberland	1902 (sinking)–after 1935	Coal
Hetton Colliery The pit that proved coal lay under the Magnesian Limestone, opening up east Durham, and the start of Stephenson's Hetton railway.	Tyne and Wear	1820 (sinking)–11 July 1950	Coal
Hewas Water Mine The last of the Hewas mines at Sticker, a small 1919 tin working said to have sent out 24 tons of black tin a month until 1926.	Cornwall	1919–1926	Tin
Hewlett Colliery The Wigan Coal and Iron Company's Westhoughton colliery, sunk in 1871 to 450 yards, whose incomers were said to have 'arrived under a tar sheet'.	Greater Manchester	1871 (sinking)–1 January 1931	Coal
Heworth Colliery A Gateshead pit of 1710 and 1821, its old shaft still capped in a field, that employed 2,000 before closing in 1963.	Tyne and Wear	1821 (High Heworth from 1710)–29 June 1963	Coal
Hexworthy Mine Tin working here was already recorded in 1240 -- among the earliest documented anywhere on Dartmoor.	Devon	At least 1240–1919	Tin
Heys Colliery An Ashton-under-Lyne pit on a one-in-two seam where forty died in 1857 after fire at the underground boilers.	Greater Manchester	By 1851–1860–1864	Coal
Hickleton Main Colliery Its union lodge was the four-hundredth recipient of the Order of Industrial Heroism, and a memorial in Thurnscoe cemetery names all 161 men who died at the pit.	South Yorkshire	1892–1994	Coal
High Brooks Colliery A colliery at Park Lane, Ashton-in-Makerfield, owned by Turner, Mercer and Evans, where explosions killed 30 in 1866 and 37 in 1869.	Greater Manchester	By 1864–1898	Coal
High Hazels Colliery A small colliery east of Sheffield, leased in 1900 to the Waverley Coal Company, whose coke ovens had a 28-inch gauge railway and three locomotives of their own.	South Yorkshire	By 1839–12 September 1925	Coal
High Rake Mine One of the most costly failures in the history of Derbyshire lead mining: a shareholder-funded 1830s scheme to punch a shaft through a hard volcanic rock layer to reach lead ore thought to lie beneath it, using what was, at the time, the largest pumping engine of its type ever built outside Cornwall.	Derbyshire	From the 13th century–March 1853	Lead
High Sedling Mine A Sheffield firm working six men on Weardale fluorspar — the mineral the dale turned to once lead had failed — and abandoned by the time the return was printed.	County Durham	Working by 1930–by 1930	Fluorspar
Higham Colliery Messrs Charlesworth's colliery at Higham, near Barnsley, working the fiery Silkstone seam, where an explosion killed 13 in 1860.	South Yorkshire	1854–1881 or 1899	Coal
Higher Levant Mine A giant retaining wall enclosing its shaft, fitted with two ore chutes and an arched entrance, is believed to be an exceptional survival -- possibly unmatched anywhere else in west Cornwall.	Cornwall	1877–1914	Copper, Tin
Higher Pitts Mine Higher Pitts never made anyone rich as a working mine, but it gave mineralogy two minerals -- chloroxiphite and diaboleite -- that exist, as far as science is concerned, because this exact spot exists.	Somerset	17th century–1893	Iron, Copper, Lead, Manganese
Highgate Colliery Sunk to the shallow, wet Shafton seam in 1916, it was worked by hand pillar-and-stall to keep the water out, stopped for a year in 1925, and ended its days as the Highgate side of Goldthorpe.	South Yorkshire	1916–1985	Coal
Highhouse Colliery Its haulage engine was already over a century old when it was finally retired in 1956 — built in 1790, it had already worked three different Ayrshire pits before Highhouse.	East Ayrshire	1894–1983	Coal
Highley Colliery Sunk in 1878 by a syndicate of North Staffordshire owners, it worked out under the River Severn until the coal was easier to lift on the far bank — so they sank a new pit at Alveley and abandoned this one to ventilation.	Shropshire	1878–1940 (shaft kept for ventilation)	Coal
Hilderston Silver Mine A silver mine seized by King James VI in 1608 to raise a City of London loan on the strength of rumoured riches that never materialised.	West Lothian	1606 (royal operation from 1608)–1870	Silver, Lead, Nickel
Hill of Beath Colliery The Adams family's pits beside Hill of Beath village, from which the Dalbeath pits were sunk and which the Fife Coal Company bought in 1889.	Fife	Early 19th century–c. 1912	Coal
Hill Top Colliery The last coal mine working in Lancashire, kept going at the end by one man past retirement age and a retired electrician who worked three years without pay.	Lancashire	1948–2014	Coal
Hill Top Harvey Colliery A Langley Park drift that grew from six men in 1894 to 312 in 1910 on the coking coal of the Hutton seam.	County Durham	By 1883–1951 (Harvey Drift listed to 1953)	Coal
Hill's Venture Lead Mine Its shaft is so narrow -- about a foot across -- that it could never have raised ore; it was sunk purely to let air reach the workings below.	Derbyshire	From 1670s–mid-19th century	Lead
Hillcarr Sough Material excavated from the underground tunnel was removed by boat, unloaded at a stone jetty still standing beside the entrance, and stacked into the spoil heap that survives immediately to the north.	Derbyshire	1776–by 1850s	Lead
Hillhouserigg Colliery A Shotts Iron Company pit worked for a century, from the ironworks' early years to the first years of the Coal Board.	North Lanarkshire	1850–April 1949	Coal, Ironstone
Hillocks Mine Firesetting scars in its upper workings, and passages that join it underground to Knotlow — the two are worked as one system.	Derbyshire	post-medieval–by 1900	Lead
Hilton and Scordale Mines A lead valley that came back to life on the strength of the waste its first miners threw away — now inside an artillery range.	Cumbria	By the 18th century–after 1919	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar, Witherite
Hindley Field Colliery A four-shaft Wigan coalfield colliery of about 1866-1927 beside the Westleigh line at Hindley.	Greater Manchester	c. 1866–30 March 1927	Coal
Hindley Green Colliery The Hindley Green pits where 62 died in 1868, and whose inquest condemned getting coal with gunpowder.	Greater Manchester	1855 (Stonehouse)–April 1936 (abandoned)	Coal
Hindley Hall Colliery A Wigan colliery whose two pits carried the names Edith and Mabel.	Lancashire	1859–1914	Coal, Fireclay
Hindsward Colliery A Cumnock pit opened three times in a century, last by a private firm that kept it going into the 1980s.	East Ayrshire	1880–1988	Coal
Hingston Down Quarry A granite quarry above Gunnislake still working since 1924, cut through the old workings of a hill whose tin riches were already proverbial in medieval times.	Cornwall	From the 18th century–1908	Granite, Tin, Copper
Hir Fynydd Colliery A hand-worked level on the Hirfynydd hillside, one of many that worked its Pinchin seams, reopened for three years in the 1990s.	Neath Port Talbot	1983–1996	Coal
Hirstrigg Colliery A moorland colliery between Salsburgh and Shotts that employed over 300 men in 1910 and piped water to its neighbours' miners' rows.	North Lanarkshire	After 1880–1943	Coal
Hobbs Hill Tin Mine A small Bodmin Moor tin mine whose last working ran its dressing machinery from its own hydro-electric station, beside a 16th-century tinwork that may have had a waterwheel over its deepest pit.	Cornwall	1844 (tinwork by 1516)–early 20th century	Tin
Hodbarrow Mine One of the largest iron mines in the world, worked entirely beneath water held back by a mile-long artificial sea wall — now a flooded nature reserve.	Cumbria	1856–1968	Iron
Hoddlesden Colliery A Darwen moorland pit whose fireclay mattered as much as its coal, feeding the Places' pipe and brick works.	Lancashire	c. 1860–1938 (old pits)	Coal, Fireclay
Hodge Close Quarry A hundred-metre hole worked for nearly two centuries, now half full of water, with drowned levels that have killed divers.	Cumbria	By the 1780s, possibly earlier–1964	Slate
Hodroyd Colliery A shallow-seam Barnsley pit where three pony drivers aged 13 to 15 were killed by roof falls in seven years.	South Yorkshire	c. 1870–1922	Coal
Holbrook Colliery J. and G. Wells's big Eckington pit of the 1870s, over a thousand strong in 1894, later worked with Norwood as Holbrook No. 2.	Derbyshire	By 1875 (sinking)–February 1944	Coal
Holditch Colliery Reputed the gassiest colliery in Britain, and the place where a decision to save the coal seam rather than seal the fire killed thirty men in 1937.	Staffordshire	1912–1989 or 1990	Coal, Ironstone
Hole-in-the-Wall Colliery Crook's last pit, whose miners took their banner to the 1964 Gala against their own lodge's decision.	County Durham	1935–21 November 1964	Coal
Holland Colliery A shallow Upholland colliery worked from about 1848, given up when a landowner's executors ended the lease, reopened, and finally bought in 1938 only to be closed for its output quota.	Lancashire	c. 1848–March 1939	Coal
Hollandtwine Mine Its 1837 plan marks 'The Great Swallow in the Twine', a natural cavern so large on the survey that a caving club spent decades trying to reach it — and the quarry took the shaft first.	Derbyshire	from Post-medieval	Lead
Hollingwood Colliery The Staveley pit where a lamp-cabin fire killed twelve men in 1857, and where the attempt to smother it drowned ninety acres of coal.	Derbyshire	1840s–1872 (Deep Soft abandoned)	Coal
Hollinswood Colliery A nine-year-old went down it in 1861 for sixpence a day and ended as the Member of Parliament for Hanley.	Staffordshire	—	Coal
Holly Bank Colliery An Essington pit that closed twice: idle after the 1926 strike, bought by a Northumberland coal-owner in 1932 and reopened in 1935, before geology finished it in 1952.	Staffordshire	c. 1850 (as Essington Wood)–December 1952	Coal, Ironstone
Holly Moor Colliery A Summersons Ltd pit on Cockfield Fell where a nineteen-year-old onsetter fell to his death from an inset in 1912.	County Durham	By 1912–29 May 1929	Coal
Hollybush Colliery A house-coal level with a hundred-foot shaft built only to lift its coal to wagon height, where four men suffocated tending an underground boiler in 1881.	Caerphilly	c. 1860–1921	Coal
Holmbush Mine The oldest Callington mine: lead and silver in the 1600s, then copper, arsenic and a ton-and-a-half ore specimen at the Great Exhibition	Cornwall	Probably early 1600s–1892	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver
Holme Bank Chert Mine Chert mined to grind flint for the Potteries — two mines under different landowners sharing one entrance and one set of surface works.	Derbyshire	1832–1959–1961	Chert
Holmes Colliery, Galston An Ayrshire pit where a pony driver drowned in 1888 riding into flooded workings after a straying pony.	East Ayrshire	by 1854	Coal
Holmes Colliery, Rotherham A Rotherham town-edge pit whose shaft was kept as a pumping station into the 1930s.	South Yorkshire	by 1854	Coal
Holmes Mine A shale mine whose chairman promised twenty years' work in 1885; it lasted about fifteen.	West Lothian	About 1884–1900	Oil Shale
Holmewood Colliery Opened with a dinner for the sinkers in 1868, mothballed by three men for a decade, and the scene of a four-day rescue that won four Edward Medals.	Derbyshire	1867-68–1968	Coal
Holmslinn Mine Chosen as the site of the second shaft along the Blackett Level specifically because it could showcase pioneering hydraulic winding and pumping technology designed by W. G. Armstrong, in place of conventional steam power.	Northumberland	1855 (sinking)–late 19th century	Lead
Holyfield Mine Still 'exploring' in 1888 on a vein that Sopwith had surveyed and drawn sixty years earlier.	Cumbria	by 1828	Lead
Holytown Colliery A Nimmo colliery whose steam engines ran its own brickworks, so short of pressure in 1937 that bricks could only be made on the back shift.	North Lanarkshire	by 1894	Coal, Fireclay
Home Farm Colliery, Hamilton The Duke of Hamilton's Home Farm pit by the Clyde, where in 1877 the river's sands poured down both shafts for ten hours and four men waited in the dark for a rescue that took two years to reach them.	South Lanarkshire	About 1864 to 1870–1925	Coal
Homer Hill Colliery A Black Country Thick Coal pit where a roof fall loosed the gas that killed twelve men in 1867, and the inspector's case for safety lamps.	West Midlands	c.1865–March 1928	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Honister Slate Mine England's last working slate mine, shut for eleven years and brought back by one man in 1997	Cumbria	from late 17th century	Slate
Hook Colliery An anthracite mine whose coal was shipped as far as Singapore and St Helena	Pembrokeshire	1850–1948	Coal
Hooten Wheals A site tin miners had already streamed for six centuries ended its working life not as a mine at all, but as a US Army training ground rehearsing for D-Day.	Devon	1240–1896	Tin
Hopetoun No. 35 Pit A Winchburgh shale pit that worked for over sixty years and outlasted most of its neighbours.	West Lothian	About 1896–1958	Oil Shale
Hopetoun No. 41 Mine A shallow shale mine dug on both sides of the Union Canal, whose subsidence still shows in the fields.	West Lothian	About 1906–1927	Oil Shale
Hopetoun No. 44 Mine A shale mine dug beneath an oil works' own waste heap, which in the end buried it.	West Lothian	1909–1916	Oil Shale
Hopetoun No. 5 Pit A Victorian shale pit brought back into use before the Second World War after more than forty years shut.	West Lothian	1883–1946	Oil Shale
Hopetoun No. 6 (Glendevon) Mines The largest of Young's Hopetoun shale mines, three adits fanning out under the fields west of Winchburgh.	West Lothian	By 1896–1957	Oil Shale
Hopewell Colliery Worked under a right granted by Edward I that only men born in the Hundred of St Briavels can claim	Gloucestershire	from 1822	Coal
Hopping Pipe Mine A Matlock Bath pipe worked for lead and then, within living memory, for fluorspar trammed out of the adit and loaded into lorries by hand.	Derbyshire	By 1901–c. 1960	Lead, Fluorspar
Hopton Wood Quarries and Middleton Mine More than 120,000 First World War headstones were cut from it — the same stone as Chatsworth, the Bank of England and Oscar Wilde's tomb	Derbyshire	From the 18th century–2005 (closure)	Limestone
Horden Colliery Set a European record for coal raised in a single day in 1930 that stood for more than thirty years, in a colliery sunk purely to reach coal running out under the North Sea.	County Durham	From November 1900 (sinking)–28 February 1987	Coal
Horsesteps Mine Horsesteps is named on every listing of this enclosure's five mines, yet appears to have left no history of its own separate from the group -- a reminder that even a formally scheduled monument can preserve a name far better than it preserves a story.	Derbyshire	to 19th century	Lead
Horsley Wood Colliery A Wylam woodland pit, idle for decades, reopened by John Stoker and abandoned twice in the 1920s.	Northumberland	Early 19th century–10 December 1927	Coal
Horton Grange Colliery A 1930s colliery on the old Bebside take near Blyth, whose pithead baths still stand.	Northumberland	1934–26 January 1962	Coal
Hostingley Colliery The owner's father had employed Anne Brontë as a governess; she put him in a novel.	West Yorkshire	to 1880	Coal
Hough Hole Colliery Two drift mines dug into Kerridge Hill to fuel a cotton mill in the valley below, one of them opening straight into the mill yard — and worked to the end by the same family who named the seams after themselves.	Cheshire	c. 1803–1925	Coal
Hough Level Driven from two directions at once to meet in the middle, its final survey error over nearly half a kilometre of tunnel was only about two feet vertically and six feet horizontally.	Cheshire	1760s–1877	Copper
Houghall Colliery A Durham pit whose village outlived it by seventy years as an aged miners' colony.	County Durham	1841–1884	Coal
Houghton Colliery It stood silent for twelve years, and within a year of reopening a misused naked lamp killed 26 men and boys.	Tyne and Wear	1823 (sinking)–26 September 1981	Coal
Houghton Main Colliery Three separate disasters over ninety years, each with its dead named and remembered — a cage that fell 535 yards in 1886, a shot fired too soon in 1930, and a fan spark in 1975.	South Yorkshire	1873-78–c. 1992/93	Coal
Houldsworth Colliery Named not for any local family but for the Houldsworths of Manchester, whose capital had driven the Doon Valley iron industry since Henry Houldsworth founded the Dalmellington Iron Company at Dunaskin in 1848.	East Ayrshire	1900 (sinking)–December 1965	Coal
Houseslip Mine Houseslip Mine at Tow Law, returned in the Durham Mining Museum's UK colliery index as Houseslip (Ganister).	County Durham	to 7 April 1924	Ganister
Howburn Colliery A Morpeth pit flooded in 1896 by a forgotten shaft hidden under the course of the How Burn.	Northumberland	1880s–1929	Coal
Howden Colliery A North Bitchburn company pit that worked every one of its parent colliery's seams except the Brockwell.	County Durham	1860s (first record)–1907	Coal
Howe Bridge Colliery The trial run for Britain's first purpose-built colliery baths happened here, before the idea was perfected next door at Gibfield — Howe Bridge itself worked on for another 46 years after that.	Greater Manchester	1845-50–1959	Coal
Howmuir Colliery A Cleland pit whose manager died in 1902 going down a reopened shaft to save a sinker overcome by chokedamp.	North Lanarkshire	1905–1925	Coal
Hoyland Silkstone Colliery A Hoyland colliery sunk in 1874-76 with a shaft 20 feet across, called 'enormous' by the inspector, and 509 yards deep to the Silkstone seam.	South Yorkshire	1840 (Hoyland and Elsecar)–May 1928	Coal
Hubberdale Mines A 1767 discovery of rich, previously unknown workings in a crosspipe yielded 20,000 loads of ore and £21,000 in profit within four to five years -- and the mine's Allen Shaft, sunk 1815-16, is a rare double climbing-and-winding shaft, its only other known Derbyshire example being at the already-published Magpie Mine.	Derbyshire	1666–1844	Lead
Hucknall Colliery Its men worked twelve-hour shifts, the longest in the country, because the owner needed his money back.	Nottinghamshire	1861–October 1986	Coal
Hudgill Burn Mine The richest lead mine known on Alston Moor, whose duty ore filled a purpose-built set of stone bingsteads beside the Nent.	Cumbria	By 1804–1870	Lead, Zinc
Huglith Mine Shropshire's biggest barytes mine sent its ore to the mill on an aerial ropeway across the hills, and the barite left standing in its stopes is now an SSSI.	Shropshire	c. 1800–1945	Barite, Copper
Hugo Pit, Coaltown of Wemyss A Wemyss estate pit above West Wemyss, joined to the harbour by an inclined tunnel in 1875, that became the Hugo Depot for the Victoria Pit's coal.	Fife	1872/73–c. 1904 (coaling ended)	Coal
Huish Colliery A Radstock pit whose site became a geological SSSI for the unusually thick Lower Jurassic limestones exposed there.	Somerset	1820 (sinking)–1912	Coal
Huncoat Colliery The Accrington pit that wound three collieries' coal and fed the town's power station.	Lancashire	1885 or 1890 (sinking)–9 February 1968	Coal
Huncote Quarry The rock it cuts is 452 million years old and records how the crust beneath central England was built.	Leicestershire	from 1848	Granite
Hungry Chert Quarries Chert from these hushes went to Staffordshire to grind flint for china, a trade begun by Josiah Wedgwood's search for a whiter porcelain.	North Yorkshire	1932–early 1950s	Chert
Huntcliffe Mine An adit mine worked by hand from first to last, closed in 1906 when the ironstone ran out.	North Yorkshire	1871–22 September 1906	Ironstone
Huntingdon Mine A tin mine that went through four names and five companies in twenty-five years, drained by waterwheels 40 feet across.	Devon	About 1839–1865	Tin
Hunwick Colliery A Bolckow Vaughan pit at Hunwick that employed 419 people in 1883, linked by waggonway across the Wear to Newfield.	County Durham	By 1846–20 August 1921	Coal
Hurlet Colliery Coal, aluminous schist, copperas and limestone from one hillside — the ground that gave Scotland its first alum works and supplied the bleachfields of Glasgow and Paisley.	Renfrewshire	Early 17th century–early 20th century	Coal, Limestone, Alum
Hurst Mines Swaledale lead workings among the district's historic mining setts.	North Yorkshire	By late 16th century–1890 (brief 1938 rework at Prys Mine)	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar
Huskar Pit A children's drift disaster in a Yorkshire thunderstorm that fed directly into the Mines and Collieries Act 1842, ending underground work for children under ten.	South Yorkshire	from c. 1831	Coal
Hutton Henry Colliery A twenty-one-year colliery that took a village from 156 people to over 3,000 and then stopped paying.	County Durham	1876–1897	Coal
Hyde Colliery Cheshire's worst pit disaster, and the charity match for the widows was the first floodlit game either Manchester club ever played.	Greater Manchester	by 1842	Coal
Hylton Colliery The pit closed in 1979, but the cricket club its miners founded in 1906 is still playing, and its welfare football side sent players to Sunderland and West Ham.	Tyne and Wear	1900–13 July 1979	Coal
Hyndford Quarry A working Clyde-side gravel quarry that Scottish Ministers stopped from expanding into the buffer zone of the New Lanark World Heritage Site.	South Lanarkshire	1960s–Still active	Sand and Gravel