Mines

Region

Commodity

112 mines beginning with H, of 1950.

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 (older pits); deep shafts producing by 1870–1941	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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–1913 (the mill worked on 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
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	Working by the early 19th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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 (early); 1911 (new shaft); 1914 (main working)–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 working); intermittent surface trials to around 1924	Manganese
Haig Colliery Cumbria's last deep coal mine; its workings ran nearly five miles out under the Irish Sea	Cumbria	1914-18 (sinking); 1916 (production)–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
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	1930s (as an ironstone and coal mine)–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal, Iron
Halkyn Mountain Extensive drainage-level network beneath the mountain	Flintshire	Bronze Age–1987	Lead, Silver, Zinc
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
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	1849–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	Company formed 1875; shafts sunk 1876; coal from 1878–1965	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)–Largely disused by the 19th century; access restricted since	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	Worked from 1906, on the site of the former Hanham Spelter Works–1926	Coal
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
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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
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
Harry Crofts Colliery Sunk over two years, in production for barely one, and beaten by the ground it was sunk into.	South Yorkshire	Sunk 1924–1926–1930	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
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 in the official returns–Discontinued July 1942; working again 1944 to at least 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
Harworth Colliery Its Barnsley-seam coal fuelled the Flying Scotsman on its record-breaking 1932 run.	Nottinghamshire	1913 (sunk); Barnsley seam reached 1923–2006	Coal
Haslowfield Mine A Via Gellia lead level that kept its herringbone roof supports, stone stemples and wooden rails	Derbyshire	Mainly 18th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
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	Sinking started 14 October 1911–June 2015	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
Hay Head Quarry The Walsall limestone quarries that gave their name to the Barr Limestone and the Barr Trilobite	West Midlands	By 1593–Abandoned by 1865	Limestone
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 (shallow); industrial-scale from 1830s–1960s-70s (individual pits; complex wound down by 1975)	Coal
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 (quarrying intensified under George Templer)–1858	Granite
Haywood Colliery Two companies went under working it inside six years, and the plant went to auction in 1890.	Gloucestershire	Gale awarded 1841–1888; plant auctioned 1890	Coal
Hazard Mine A fragment of its belland yard wall still stands — the wall that kept livestock off ground poisoned by lead.	Derbyshire	Post-medieval; working recorded from the 1830s–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Calcite
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 (Magdalen/Corporation Pit, the last quarry to close)	Freestone
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 worked as of recent decades by Sibelco.	China Clay
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–Still returning, for ganister, in 1930	Lead, Ganister
Heaton Colliery The bricks say G. Heaton, Shipley — and the maker was a Lancastrian who happened to share the township's name.	West Yorkshire	Brickworks from 1855 or a little earlier–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal, Fireclay
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
Heights Pasture Mine A Weardale iron mine whose vuggy flats turned out to hold emerald-green fluorite up to four centimetres across	County Durham	1850 (Weardale Iron Company)–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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); worked 1919-20, 1934-44, 2015-18–1944 (early workings); October 2018 (Wolf Minerals)	Tungsten, Tin
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
Hendre Mine Where the Halkyn lead district ended up, and where it finally stopped in 1987	Flintshire	Old workings; Olwyn Goch from 1931–1977 (lead); 1987 (all work)	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	An exploration permit was granted to David Hughes in 1856–Closed for the last time in 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; developed from 1814-16–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	c.1840–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
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	Quarried extensively in the 19th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Sandstone
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	Sunk for ironstone, deepened to coal by 1886–1959	Coal, Iron
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 (final closure, as Rosewarne and Herland United)	Copper, Silver
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 (intermittent); main working from 1845–1884	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
Hexworthy Mine Tin working here was already recorded in 1240 -- among the earliest documented anywhere on Dartmoor.	Devon	Worked by at least 1240–1919	Tin
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 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	Worked since at least 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–Abandoned by 1930	Fluorspar
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	Part of Spearn Consols; incorporated into Levant in 1877–Abandoned in 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)–Soon after 1614 (reworked 1766-72 and 1870)	Silver, Lead, Nickel
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 (first closure 1966; reopened 1997)	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	Moss Rake worked here from the 1670s; possibly mid-13th century–Moss Rake worked to the 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	Begun in 1776–Alport mines it drained largely closed by the 1850s	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	Worked by the 18th century; London Lead Company from 1824–Work ceased after 1919; lease finally abandoned 1963	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar, Witherite
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	Tin worked from at least the 18th century–Hingston Down Consols wound up 1885 (brief reopenings to 1908-9)	Granite, Tin, Copper
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
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
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
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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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); 1895 (as Holly Bank)–December 1952	Coal, Ironstone
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	Quarry documented 1832; underground by the mid-19th century–Between 1959 and 1961	Chert
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	Its shaft was sunk in 1855, with lead mining beginning in 1856.–Worked until the late 19th century.	Lead
Holyfield Mine Still 'exploring' in 1888 on a vein that Sopwith had surveyed and drawn sixty years earlier.	Cumbria	Worked by 1828–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
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
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
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
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	Quarried from at least the 18th century; underground drift begun 1959–Middleton Mine closed 2005; quarrying ceased 2006	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	Sinking from November 1900; shafts completed 1904–28 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
Hostingley Colliery The owner's father had employed Anne Brontë as a governess; she put him in a novel.	West Yorkshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–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	First section dug in the 1760s–Extended and used for haulage until the mines' 1877 closure	Copper
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); coal from 1827–26 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	Two shafts sunk 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	Sunk in 1900 by the Dalmellington Iron Company at a cost of £250,000.–Closed in 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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Abandoned 7 April 1924	Ganister
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
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
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
Huncote Quarry The rock it cuts is 452 million years old and records how the crust beneath central England was built.	Leicestershire	1848–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Granite
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
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	worked by the late 16th century; possibly earlier–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	c. 1831–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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