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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Ladies Lane Colliery A Hindley colliery whose pits shared the Pennygate pumping pit with the Hindley Deep pits across the railway.	Greater Manchester	1859–1908 or 1910	Coal
Lady Annabella Mine Named for Annabella Bruce, born in June 2020 to Ian and Diana Bruce of UK Mining Ventures -- the same operator already documented on this archive's Rogerley Mine record -- the mine works three named veins for collector-grade fluorite from a former cement quarry.	County Durham	Early 1960s (as a cement quarry)–Still active	Fluorspar
Lady Lewis Colliery The Lewis Merthyr company's deep pit at Ynyshir, where the Nine Feet and Red Vein lay so close they were worked as one seam.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1901 (sinking)–1950	Coal
Lady Margaret Colliery An 1853 Bute pit at Treherbert that grew to over a thousand men before ending as a pumping shaft.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1853–early 1940s (production)	Coal
Lady Rashleigh Mine The Luxulyan Valley's other metal mine, retried in 1881 and left as an ivy-grown office in the woods.	Cornwall	By 1850s–1881	Tin
Lady Victoria Colliery Scotland's largest surviving steam winding engine spent nearly 90 years hauling men and coal up and down Lady Victoria's shaft — and can still be seen turning today, in the museum the colliery itself became.	Midlothian	From 1890 (sinking)–1981	Coal
Lady Windsor Colliery Named after a baroness, sunk for £95,875 in twenty months, and among the first pits in Wales to give its men pithead baths — which the village could use for threepence.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1884–85 (first coal 1886)–February 1988	Coal
Lady's Rake Mine One of the last London Lead Company mines, keeping a complete water-balance winding and spear-pumping layout with the rising main still in the shaft.	County Durham	From 1868–1909	Lead
Ladyha Colliery An estate colliery reached by a tunnel built so that its coal wagons were hidden from Eglinton Castle.	North Ayrshire	1885 (No. 2 Pit sinking)–1934	Coal
Ladylands Colliery A Shotts colliery that stood down to one man while it was sunk deeper, then came back to over a hundred.	North Lanarkshire	1890–1920	Coal, Ironstone
Ladyshore Colliery A manager's refusal to swap candles for safety lamps went all the way to the House of Lords — and lost, ending the use of open flames underground in English coal mines for good.	Greater Manchester	1830s–June 1949	Coal
Ladysmith Pit Named for the siege of Ladysmith while its shaft was still going down, the Whitehaven pit where four sinkers died in a shaft collapse in 1901 and whose coke-oven site later made detergent chemicals.	Cumbria	1900 (sinking begun)–1930	Coal
Ladywash Mine Ladywash's two working lives, two centuries apart, were driven by entirely different industries at each end — Georgian and Victorian lead demand at the start, and 20th-century steelmaking's need for fluorspar flux at the end.	Derbyshire	1714–1979	Lead, Fluorspar
Ladywell Mine Its 1875 beam winding and pumping engine house survives as one of the Stiperstones orefield's most attractive ruins, now a Grade II listed building and Scheduled Monument.	Shropshire	1830s–c. 1882	Lead
Laffack Colliery A St Helens colliery of the 1760s whose 1850s records read as a roll of explosions, falls and overwinds.	Merseyside	1769 (first record)–after 1875	Coal
Lag Bank Quarry Thirteen men in 1927, sixty-seven in 1935, and by 1945 nearly all of them working at the surface rather than in the rock.	Cumbria	From 1927–1945	Slate
Lakes Pit, Dukinfield The Astleys' other Dukinfield pit, where 38 died in 1866, eight years before the Deep Pit disaster.	Greater Manchester	—	Coal
Lambley Colliery A small pit in a remote Northumberland coalfield that the Coal Board grew to nearly two hundred men.	Northumberland	By 1850–16 August 1958	Coal
Lambshouse and Gull Point Quarry The cove's cliffs are almost entirely man-made, and the drill marks are still in them.	Cornwall	17th century–by 1907	Slate
Lambton Colliery The Earl of Durham's pits at Fencehouses, worked from 1790 to 1965 and served by one of the largest colliery railways in the country.	County Durham	1790 (C pit sunk 1791)–27 February 1965	Coal
Lan Colliery The Pentyrch ironworks colliery where an explosion on a snowy December morning in 1875 killed sixteen men and boys.	Cardiff	18th century–before 1914	Coal
Lanchester Colliery A Lanchester pit that maps showed disused by the 1890s but which came back to work drift after drift until 1950.	County Durham	By 1838–1950	Coal
Lanchester Towneley Drift A National Coal Board drift near Lanchester working the Towneley seam for coking coal, 1951-1963.	County Durham	By 1951–August 1963	Coal
Landshipping Colliery Forty drowned in minutes when the Daucleddau broke into workings driven a quarter of a mile out beneath it — the worst loss of life in Pembrokeshire mining.	Pembrokeshire	from 1788	Coal
Lanelay Colliery A Pontyclun colliery that changed names as often as owners, from Lan-Elay to Cardiff Navigation and back to Lanelay.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Early 1850s–mid 1930s	Coal
Lanemark Colliery The New Cumnock colliery that housed its miners in the South Boig rows and lent its name to a football club.	East Ayrshire	1865–1908	Coal
Langbaurgh Whinstone Mine A stone working that was mostly underground: thirty of its fifty-three men were below ground in 1910, following a wall of volcanic rock eighty feet wide.	North Yorkshire	From 1882–1950	Whinstone
Langley Barony Mine Lead, barytes and whinstone from one sett on the estate a Jacobite earl forfeited in 1715.	Northumberland	1868–1893	Lead, Barite, Whinstone
Langley Park Colliery Closed a hundred years to the year after its first coal, in a village it had created.	County Durham	1873 (borings)–31 October 1975	Coal
Langness Mine Copper worked at the southernmost tip of the Isle of Man, where the ore outcrops in the cliffs.	Isle of Man	19th century–1902	Copper
Langton Colliery A Kirkby-in-Ashfield colliery sunk from 1842, whose horse gin of 1844 survives, worked for more than 120 years before being joined to the Kirkby combined mine.	Nottinghamshire	1842 (sinking)–1968	Coal
Langtree Colliery A Standish pit sunk to 106 yards in 1857 and driven on to 530 yards by Wigan Coal & Iron.	Greater Manchester	1857–March 1932	Coal
Langwith Colliery Two thousand men on one seam at its height, and its shafts were kept pumping after closure to keep the water out of the pit next door.	Derbyshire	From 1876 (sinking)–1978	Coal
Lanterdan Quarry A 25-metre pinnacle of slate stands in the middle of the workings because the stone in it was not worth taking.	Cornwall	Late 15th century–early 20th century	Slate
Lassodie Colliery Eleven pits, 1,400 people, a school of 250 — and when the pits shut in 1931 the families were given fourteen days to leave their homes.	Fife	1859–May 1931	Coal
Lassodie Mill Colliery A Kelty pit where a reversed fault put the same coals above and below each other, and where a 1893 strike against 'Billy Fairplay' collapsed after five weeks.	Fife	c. 1890–1928	Coal
Lathkill Dale Mine A Peak District lead mine known for Bateman's House, a manager's dwelling built directly over a 12m-deep shaft that once held an experimental water-powered engine.	Derbyshire	1741-42–1841-42	Lead
Lawn Colliery The deepest pit in the Shropshire coalfield in 1841, whose pumped water later fed the Priorslee furnaces.	Shropshire	c.1820–1906	Coal
Lawson Main Colliery A Byker pit whose waggonway, relaid with cast iron rails in 1797, was probably the north's first iron railway.	Tyne and Wear	By the mid-1780s–1811	Coal
Lea Green Colliery The pit where Bill Foulkes worked a full shift underground and then caught the train to Manchester United's evening training, earning more at the coal face than Old Trafford paid him.	Lancashire	Early 1870s–1964	Coal
Lead Mines Clough The type locality for witherite, discovered as worthless waste in the spoil and initially used as rat poison, before a 2022 study established that Anglezarke — not Alston Moor, Cumbria, as long recorded — was the mineral's real point of discovery.	Lancashire	c.680-1000–1837 (mines sealed 1930)	Lead, Barite, Witherite
Lead Workings in High Tor Recreation Ground Turned into public showcaves in 1865 and given their evocative names then, Roman Cave and Fern Cave are lead mine opencuts with no genuine Roman-period working evidence at all.	Derbyshire	Documented from the 16th century–At least the 18th century	Lead
Leadhills "God's Treasure House" — historic lead-mining village	South Lanarkshire	1239–1938	Lead, Silver, Gold
Leasingthorne Colliery An ironmasters' colliery, held by Bolckow, Vaughan and then Dorman Long from the 1870s until nationalisation.	County Durham	1836–October 1967	Coal
Lecht Mine Scotland's largest manganese mine lasted five years, and everything that survives of it is one stone building on an empty hillside at 1,400 feet	Moray	From 1730–1846	Manganese, Iron
Ledston Luck Colliery Named from Lady Wheler's wish at the first sod in 1909, and its 1911 winding houses held some of the first electric winders in British coal.	West Yorkshire	From 1909–October 1986	Coal
Lee Moor China Clay Works One of only two places in Britain still working china clay — and the pits leave nine tonnes of waste behind for every one they sell	Devon	from 1820s-30s	China Clay
Lee, Watson and Company's East Ardsley Pits East Ardsley pits where four miners were rescued alive after three days in 1809, inspiring an 1818 play.	West Yorkshire	—	Coal
Lees and Dove Rakes A rare drystone-lined, semi-circular bouse team, complete with the raised barrow-run that once wheeled ore to it, survives here largely intact.	Derbyshire	From 1709-13–19th century	Lead
Leeswood Green Colliery Banning Welsh underground was one of the grievances that ended with soldiers firing on a crowd in Mold.	Flintshire	from early 19th century	Coal, Cannel Coal
Leeswood Main Colliery A jury returned manslaughter against all three owners; the assizes found no bill and fined the manager five pounds, to be divided among the widows.	Flintshire	from About 1861	Coal, Cannel Coal
Leftlake Clay Works A clay pit whose inferior clay shared the eight-mile Redlake pipeline but was never sent down with Redlake's own.	Devon	About 1850–1933	China Clay
Legbrannock Colliery A Holytown colliery worked seam by seam for sixty years, from the blackband ironstone of the 1850s to the Lower Drumgray in 1919.	North Lanarkshire	By 1860–after 1920	Coal, Ironstone
Leighton Buzzard Sand Quarries Sand from these quarries glazed the Crystal Palace in 1851 and, six decades later, filled wartime ammunition factories once Belgium's own supply was cut off.	Bedfordshire	By 1851–by late 1960s	Silica Sand
Lepton Edge Colliery A Kirklees pit known for raising more water than coal, whose shaft went on pumping for a quarter of a century after it closed.	West Yorkshire	By 1894–August 1964	Coal
Letcha Mine The St Just sett whose 1857 map swallowed Wheal Hermon, Cornwall's oldest mapped mine, and left a moonlit chimney.	Cornwall	from before 1835	Tin
Lethans Colliery Two Wilsons and Clyde pits near Saline, at Knock Hill and Steelend, worked for steam coal from about 1905 to 1933 and their surface mine to 1938.	Fife	c. 1905–1933 (No 2 pit)	Coal
Levant Mine Workings extend under the sea; site of the 1919 man-engine disaster	Cornwall	1787–1930	Tin, Arsenic, Copper
Leven Colliery Sunk on the braes above Methil in 1877 and named by Charles Carlow himself; its Edinburgh student volunteers could not save the two ponies left below in the lockout of 1921.	Fife	1877 (sinking)–1931	Coal
Levenseat Limestone Mines Mined for lime since at least the 1830s, when ten men and three horses followed a single seven-foot bed of limestone into the hill.	West Lothian	By 1837–c.1967	Limestone, Fireclay
Lewis Merthyr Colliery Now the Rhondda Heritage Park, with underground tours led by former miners	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1850 (Hafod/Coed Cae pits)–1983	Coal
Leycett Colliery Within five months in 1879-80 the same pit exploded twice, and the second time it killed the manager and his son with sixty others.	Staffordshire	By 1860–21 September 1957	Coal
Lickar Colliery A deep pit by north Northumberland standards, worked from 1854 to feed local lime kilns and villages.	Northumberland	from 1854	Coal
Lidgett Colliery A doctor's thin-seam pit, nicknamed the 'Pill Box Pit', where electric coal cutters were developed and patented in the 1890s.	South Yorkshire	1879–1911	Coal
Lightmoor Colliery One of the Forest of Dean's largest collieries, sunk to feed one ironmaster's own furnaces, whose roofless pumping house is now the last of its kind left standing in the Forest.	Forest of Dean	c. 1832 (gale awarded 1841)–8 June 1940	Coal
Lilley Drift Joseph Cowen's drift at Rowlands Gill, 1877 to 1957, whose fireclay made the 'Lily' bricks of the works beside it.	Tyne and Wear	1877–6 January 1957	Coal, Fireclay
Lillydale Colliery A small Bucknall pit whose drive into flooded old workings ended in a manslaughter trial for its owner.	Staffordshire	About 1856–1922	Coal
Lily Colliery A Dipton pit with its own tunnel through to Surtees Pit and a tramway to the Harelaw Waggonway.	County Durham	By 1877–19th century	Coal
Limefield No. 32 Mine A West Calder shale mine worked twice, once from the 1880s and again from 1900 until it ran out in 1923.	West Lothian	About 1880–1923	Oil Shale
Limeylands Colliery An Ormiston pit whose workforce barely moved in forty years, and whose railway is now a cycle path through the East Lothian fields.	East Lothian	by 1915	Coal
Linacre Wood Smelt Mill One of its 16th-century tenants, James Linacre, had already been accused in 1584 of infringing a rival's patented lead-smelting process -- suggesting a mill here may have operated even before the first lease of 1596.	Derbyshire	From 1596–1613	Lead
Linby Colliery Britain’s "Champion Pit" of the early 1960s and reckoned the most efficient mine in Europe: in 1963, 1,113 men at Linby raised over 1.3 million tons.	Nottinghamshire	1873–31 March 1988	Coal
Lindal Moor Locomotive No. 115 is still down there: not recovered, and barely searched for since the 1890s, quietly resting beneath Lindal-in-Furness in workings its own railway line's foundations had helped undermine.	Cumbria	From mid-19th century–c. 1914-1915	Iron
Lingard Lane Colliery A colliery that had to be tubbed in iron through waterlogged sandstone, and never came back from the 1926 strike.	Greater Manchester	1889 (sinking)–April 1939	Coal
Lingerwood Colliery The oldest of the Newbattle collieries at Newtongrange, later providing the neighbouring Lady Victoria Colliery with its statutory second shaft.	Midlothian	1798–1967	Coal
Lings Colliery A Derbyshire pit whose abandoned workings left a two-mile lake of water for the next generation to sink through	Derbyshire	1840–1896	Coal
Linnyshaw Colliery Locals never called it by its proper name — to them it was always just Berryfield, after the field it stood in.	Greater Manchester	1850–1921	Coal
Linton Colliery Bob Charlton was 360 feet down here on the day his son Jack played in a World Cup semi-final, and could not come up to learn the score.	Northumberland	1894–1968	Coal
Lintz Colliery Engineers expected a great dyke to throw the coal down; it threw it up, and the pit reopened on the strength of it.	County Durham	1855–1929	Coal
Lintzgarth Mine Six men opening new ground beside the ruin of the smelt mill that had, a decade earlier, been the last one working in the orefield.	County Durham	1930–June 1930	Lead
Lion Salt Works The UK's last open-pan salt works, producing salt by evaporating brine over open pans until 1986 and surviving today as a restored working museum.	Cheshire	1894–June 1986	Salt
Little Brookhead Mine An unusually intact small lead mine complex at Eyam, preserving its capped shaft, horse-gin circle and dressing floors as surface earthworks.	Derbyshire	from Post-medieval (1540-1900)	Lead
Little Chilton Colliery The small pit that started Ferryhill Station, with fifty cottages built for its men in 1845.	County Durham	1845-46–1865	Coal
Little Garth Mine Worked by hand into caverns 70 ft high, and shown to Victorian visitors for the colours of its flooded chambers.	Cardiff	Early 19th century–1884	Iron, Ochre
Little Raith Colliery A Cowdenbeath colliery that probably lent its name to an early Raith Rovers, a forerunner of Cowdenbeath F.C.	Fife	By 1852–1959	Coal
Littleburn Colliery Advertised in The Times in 1931 with sixty-four coke ovens, a byproduct plant, its own power station and four hundred and eight workmen's houses — and no buyer.	County Durham	1840–December 1950	Coal, Fireclay
Littlemill Colliery Rankinston's pit, rebuilt in the 1950s with a 325-metre shaft, whose closure in 1974 emptied the village.	East Ayrshire	1860 (some accounts 1905)–June 1974	Coal
Littleton Colliery The last deep mine in Staffordshire, its 1993 closure after a controversially overturned reprieve ending centuries of deep mining on the Cannock Chase Coalfield.	Staffordshire	From 1877 (sinking)–3 December 1993	Coal
Littletown Colliery The Earl of Durham's Pittington pit, known locally as Lambton Colliery.	County Durham	1831–1914	Coal
Llammarch Colliery An outcrop level on the Brynmawr moorland that may have fed the Clydach ironworks from the 1790s and worked on into the Coal Board's first months.	Blaenau Gwent	Possibly 1794–21 June 1947	Coal
Llanberis Copper Mine The old copper mine of Llyn Peris, worked for a century before the slate quarries took over the valley.	Gwynedd	Mid-18th century–1873	Copper
Llanbradach Colliery A Rhymney Valley steam-coal pit whose 1901 explosion inquest turned on how many casks of water had been used to damp the roadway before a shot was fired.	Caerphilly	1893–1961	Coal
Llanbradach Quarry A disused Pennant sandstone quarry north of Caerphilly holding the only upper Westphalian permineralised flora known in western or central Europe.	Caerphilly	by 1905, possibly earlier	Sandstone
Llancaiach Colliery One of Thomas Powell's earliest South Wales ventures, open for 76 years and given its own dedicated branch railway thirty years into its working life.	Caerphilly	1811–1887	Coal
Llandebie Colliery The first colliery swallowed by Amalgamated Anthracite, which within seven years was the largest anthracite company in the world.	Carmarthenshire	1904–20 December 1958	Anthracite
Llanerch Colliery 176 men and boys killed by a naked light in 1890, two months after the management decided the pit was well enough ventilated to keep using open lamps.	Torfaen	c. 1830–1947	Coal
Llanfair Lead and Silver Mine Once reckoned the richest silver mine in Cardiganshire; little now survives beyond a leat.	Ceredigion	c. 1760–1862	Lead, Silver
Llangynog Mine For a few years in the 1730s one of the largest lead producers in Europe, whose profits went to pay a Marquess's daughter's speculative debts.	Powys	c.1705–by 1880	Lead
Llanharan Colliery The colliery where horizon mining was first fully used in Britain, in 1948, to reach the steep, thrust-faulted seams of the south crop, and which closed after £9 million could not make them pay.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1870s (first sinking)–25 August 1962	Coal
Llanharry Iron Mine The last iron mine in Wales — in the country that had once made more iron than anywhere on earth	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Early 1900s–1975 or 1976	Iron
Llanhilleth Colliery A small house-coal pit of the 1850s turned into an 1,800-strong steam colliery by one company.	Blaenau Gwent	1850s–1969	Coal
Llanover Colliery A Sirhowy valley pit that became the pumping station keeping water out of Markham and Oakdale.	Caerphilly	c. 1888–c. 1929 (production)	Coal
Llantrisant Colliery A showpiece Powell Duffryn pithead from the 1920s whose engine hall still stands, though the pit worked for barely a decade.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1922–1928 (sinking)–2 June 1941	Coal
Llanymynech Hill Mines and Quarries The Romans fortified the hill to protect the copper mine, and eighteenth-century visitors to the cave were still turning up skeletons with coins of Antoninus beside them	Powys	From later Bronze Age–around 200 AD	Copper, Limestone
Llay Hall Colliery A Wrexham colliery of 1877-1948 whose engine house, rare early washery, workshops and chimney all survive and are listed.	Wrexham	1877–1948	Coal, Fireclay
Llay Main Colliery Seven years to sink, a thousand yards deep, the largest colliery in Wales and the deepest pit in Britain — and an industrial estate over the top of it now.	Wrexham	1914 (sinking)–1966	Coal
Llechwedd Slate Caverns Nearly ruined within its first years until unpaid workers found the great 'Old Merioneth Vein'; now a major slate heritage attraction	Gwynedd	1846–1970s	Slate
Lletty Shenkin Colliery Fifty-two men and boys died here in one afternoon in 1849 — only about five of them burned, the rest suffocated by the afterdamp where they sat.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1843–1922	Coal
Lliwedd Mine A high, remote copper mine on Y Lliwedd whose machinery was too hard to carry away and still lies among the mill ruins.	Gwynedd	By 1806–1865	Copper
Lloyds Mines Ironbridge Home to one of the earliest steam engines in Shropshire -- installed at Smiths Gin Pit in 1726 -- and later a landslip-prone riverside community whose houses and pits alike have mostly since slid into the Severn Gorge.	Shropshire	14th century–by early 20th century	Coal, Iron, Fireclay
Lluest Colliery Nineteen killed in a seam that was in places only twenty-two inches thick — and the colliery stopped producing three years later.	Bridgend	By 1880–1902	Coal
Llwydgoed Quarry One of at least 37 quarries once at work in the Nantlle Valley, a west-Wales slate district whose deep, valley-floor slate beds forced quarrymen to dig pits rather than work open hillside galleries, as their counterparts did further east at Penrhyn and Dinorwic.	Gwynedd	—	Slate
Llwyncelyn Colliery A Porth pit whose owner and one of its colliers won Albert Medals at the 1877 Tynewydd rescue.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1851–April 1895	Coal
Llwyndu Copper Mine A copper mine worked for barely nine years whose dressing floor, flue and whim circle survive almost as an 1842 drawing shows them.	Gwynedd	By 1840–1844	Copper
Llwyngwern Quarry Its mill sat above the pit, so the incline had to be powered to lift rock uphill to be worked.	Powys	By 1828–1941	Slate
Llwynhelig Colliery A Cwmdare drift in an 18-inch seam where one of the coalfield's first electric coal-cutters worked in 1909.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1905 or 1906–1932 or 1946	Coal
Llwynymaen Colliery Its 140 colliers gave four pounds to the war loan against Napoleon in 1798.	Shropshire	1787–c.1840	Coal
Llywernog Mine Llywernog's first recorded lessee, in 1749, was Lewis Morris — one of 18th-century Wales's most significant literary figures, better remembered today for his poetry and antiquarian scholarship than for the lead mine he briefly held the lease on.	Ceredigion	1742 (vein discovered)–1891 (lead)	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Loanhead (Ramsay) Colliery Closed two years after the Bilston Glen 'super pit' opened a mile away	Midlothian	c.1850–1965 (abandoned 1966)	Coal, Iron
Loch Cuithir Diatomite Works A remote Skye industry extracting fossil diatom shells by tramway for use in match-making, filtering, toothpaste — and, via Nobel Industries, as the absorbent base for dynamite.	Highland	1886/1890–1915	Diatomite
Lochaline Mine A patch of England's white cliffs, geologically speaking, stranded 500 miles away on a Scottish sea loch — and the only underground sand mine left in Europe.	Highland	1940–2008 (closure)	Silica Sand
Locharbriggs Quarry A working red sandstone quarry that is also the type locality of its own formation, and the best place in Britain to read the internal structure of a Permian desert dune.	Dumfries and Galloway	18th century–Still active	Sandstone
Lochend Colliery A Lanarkshire pit whose cone-topped bing, 'The Mexican's Hat', is a landmark and a scheduled monument.	North Lanarkshire	c. 1880–December 1948	Coal
Lochgelly Colliery Worked from at least the 1770s, when fifteen people raised ten tons a day; blaes was still coming up with the coal in 1915.	Fife	by 1770s, possibly earlier	Coal
Lochhead Colliery The Wemyss pit renamed after a divorce, where three men died in the 1907 fire and which outlived Michael by three years.	Fife	1890 (as Lady Lilian)–27 March 1970	Coal
Lochlea Colliery One of the collieries the National Coal Board sank itself, worked for a quarter of a century near Mauchline.	South Ayrshire	1949–November 1973	Coal
Lochwood Colliery The Bairds' Easterhouse colliery, whose workings yielded a fossil giant clubmoss now in Glasgow's museum collections.	Glasgow	By 1880–1914 or the 1920s	Coal
Lodge Colliery A small Slamannan steam-coal colliery that its own owners called 'unimportant' in 1890, worked out within six years.	Falkirk	Mid-1840s–1896	Coal
Lodge Syke Mine A London Lead Company mine driven from Hudeshope until it met the workings coming the other way from Eggleston.	County Durham	by 1888	Lead
Lofthouse Colliery Seven men died because nobody read the old plans — and there are 119 catalogued plans for this colliery in the national mine-plans record	West Yorkshire	1873-1877–1981	Coal
Loftus Mine One of the few Cleveland ironstone mines whose actual underground workings, rather than just surface remains, can still be visited.	North Yorkshire	1859–1958	Iron
Loganlea Colliery The pit is gone and the village is still there, which is the opposite of what usually happened.	West Lothian	About 1890–1959	Coal
Logaulas Mine An ancient lead-silver mine in the Cambrian Mountains mining district around Pont-rhyd-y-groes, once a bustling mining village now much reduced from its 19th-century peak.	Ceredigion	from From mid-18th century	Lead, Silver
Loggerheads Loggerheads' transformation is about as complete as a mining site can undergo: a working lead and zinc district that once needed its own purpose-built miners' settlement is now valued instead for its conservation status, walked by visitors who are mostly there for the scenery rather than the industrial history beneath it.	Denbighshire	worked from at least the 18th century–19th century	Lead, Zinc
Lolly Scar Mine One of Nidderdale's last lead mines, worked by Swaledale men brought from Old Gang and still paying its miners by the bing in the 1900s.	North Yorkshire	1866 (crosscut begun)–1910	Lead
Long Grass Quarry Worked from wooden ladders down a sea cliff, with the best slate inside a cave tunnelled at the foot of the rock.	Cornwall	By 1884–1937	Slate
Long Meg Mine Gypsum, then anhydrite: five million tonnes out of the Eden valley, and its own branch off the Settle–Carlisle.	Cumbria	1880–January 1976	Gypsum, Anhydrite
Long Rake Spar Mine Fluorspar (with lead) mine near Youlgreave, opened 1867, underground working continued to 1981.	Derbyshire	1867–1981 (underground)	Lead, Fluorspar, Calcite
Long Sough Entrance Water it still drains today once helped power Richard Arkwright's pioneering 18th-century cotton mill downstream -- a lead-drainage tunnel doing double duty for the early Industrial Revolution.	Derbyshire	from 1673	Lead
Long Work Copper Mine Elizabethan copper trenches reopened in 1919, three and a half centuries on, by a level driven 70 feet beneath them, which found the vein no richer than the Elizabethans had left it.	Cumbria	c. 1565–1922	Copper
Longacres Mine Its headgear burned down in the first year of sinking, it spent seventeen years raising no stone at all while its shafts served North Skelton, and Dorman Long reopened it for ironstone in 1933 anyway.	North Yorkshire	1865 (lease)–1954	Ironstone
Longannet Colliery The end of deep coal mining in Scotland, brought about not by exhaustion of reserves or economics but by a single sudden inrush of water.	Fife	1969–2002	Coal
Longcleugh Mine One of the network of veins worked from Nenthead's Middlecleugh Level, in a mining field once described as the most intact mining landscape in the North Pennines.	Cumbria	From 1751–1882-1960	Lead
Longcliffe Quarry A quarry can outlive its own working life as a landmark: Longcliffe's real legacy is not the stone it supplied but the fact that geologists still use it to define the North Charnwood Diorite itself.	Leicestershire	—	Diorite
Longhirst Colliery The Lawson family's Longhirst pit, sunk on their own estate in the 1860s, which left a row of miners' cottages that became homes for aged mineworkers.	Northumberland	1868–1896	Coal
Longhirst Drift A National Coal Board drift driven in the mid-1950s that grew to 573 people and closed after thirteen years, in 1969.	Northumberland	1953 (construction begun)–15 March 1969	Coal
Longhirst Grange Colliery A small Morpeth-area colliery sunk in 1882, worked by H. Bell, John Thompson and Sons, Robert Nicholson and the Longhirst Grange Colliery Co. Ltd until it stood in 1902.	Northumberland	1882 (sinking)–April 1901 (abandoned)	Coal
Longhoughton Quarry A Northumberland whinstone quarry that cut setts for Ashington's streets, ran war-surplus locomotives on its tramway, and is now a fishing lake.	Northumberland	Early 19th century–1974	Limestone, Whinstone
Longriggend Colliery A moorland colliery around Longriggend, with pits numbered to eleven, where an 1899 firedamp blast tore up the roadway.	North Lanarkshire	By 1882–1953	Coal
Longriggs Mine, Appleby A gypsum drift mine opened in 1965 and worked entirely underground despite the 'quarry' in its usual name; linked by conveyor to the neighbouring Birkshead Mine, still working today.	Cumbria	1965–after 1984	Gypsum
Longstone Edge Longstone Edge's real modern significance has little to do with the minerals it produced and everything to do with what a single sentence in a 1952 mineral permission was later argued to allow — a dispute that ended up before the Court of Appeal more than half a century after it was written.	Derbyshire	worked from at least the 18th century (lead veins)–2009	Fluorspar, Lead, Barite
Longtor Mines Matlock lead workings on several levels of the gorge side, broken by fire before gunpowder reached the orefield	Derbyshire	from Post-medieval	Lead, Zinc, Fluorspar
Longwitton Colliery A Trevelyan estate colliery north-west of Longwitton, run by the Longwitton and Greenleighton Coal and Lime Co. and served by a tramway.	Northumberland	c. 1874–before 1897	Coal, Fireclay
Lords Quarry One of three Langdale quarries under one company, idle in 1910 and back at work in the 1920s; the valley's slate is still worked next door.	Cumbria	by 1882	Slate
Loscoe Colliery A century-old Butterley pit through whose old workings the company sank its last Heanor colliery, Ormonde.	Derbyshire	Early 1830s (sinking)–1933	Coal
Loudoun Colliery A three-pit Galston colliery of the Ayrshire ironmasters where two sinkers died when a rope broke as they repaired the shaft.	East Ayrshire	By 1878–c. 1928	Coal
Loughrigg Fell Slate Quarry One line in the 1888 openworks return for a green-slate quarry on a fell whose other workings became one of the Lake District's best-known caves.	Cumbria	from Working by 1888	Slate
Louisa Colliery A single match, struck to light a cigarette underground, set off an explosion that killed the only two Bevin Boys to die in the pits.	County Durham	1759–1964	Coal
Lover Gill Mine Worked from about 1730 by the Company of Mine Adventurers of England, alongside Lord Wharton's mines near Oxnop -- a company of national importance in its day, rather than a purely local concern.	North Yorkshire	from c. 1730	Lead
Lovers Lane Colliery A single shot that blew out its stemming killed 27 in the year the Fletchers took Abraham Burrows into partnership.	Greater Manchester	By 1832–1898	Coal
Loveston Colliery A 1932 anthracite slant drowned in 1936 by water from workings nobody had mapped.	Pembrokeshire	1932–27 July 1937	Anthracite, Coal
Low Bitchburn Colliery A Crook drift mine whose whole output was made into coke in the 1890s.	County Durham	1850–1937	Coal
Low Hall Colliery To fight the fire after the 1869 explosion the owners tapped a water company's main into the pit.	Greater Manchester	from 1860	Coal
Low Laithes Colliery An Ossett colliery that grew to nearly 700 men before the First World War and was abandoned in 1928.	West Yorkshire	1855–1927	Coal
Lowca Colliery Two explosions 108 years apart: forty dead at John Pit in 1838 and fifteen in 1946 at Harrington No. 10, whose workings ran out under the Solway Firth.	Cumbria	By 1838–1968	Coal
Lower Deep Colliery An ironworks pit at Blaina that employed over five hundred and then served as Beynon's pumping shaft.	Blaenau Gwent	Early 19th century or 1860–1 September 1923	Coal, Ironstone
Lower Duffryn Colliery The 1910 dispute over its old customs spread a riotous strike through most of the Cynon Valley.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Early 1850s–1970s	Coal
Lower Graigola Colliery A Clydach colliery that worked through the First World War with sixty men and gave up the Graigola seam in 1926.	Swansea	By 1912–April 1926	Coal
Lower Varteg Colliery Deakin's 1899 slope, which ran for nearly sixty years and whose adit has been restored as a memorial to it.	Torfaen	1898–26 January 1957	Coal, Ironstone
Lowick Colliery A three-decade landsale pit by the Low stream near Lowick, its shafts now hollows in the fields.	Northumberland	1860s–by 1897	Coal
Ludlows Colliery A deep Waldegrave estate pit at Radstock that worked for well over a century and a half, with Miners' Welfare pithead baths from 1940.	Somerset	Before 1790–1954	Coal
Ludworth Colliery A small east Durham pit that lost eight lives in two shaft accidents seven years apart.	County Durham	1837–1931	Coal
Lugar Mine A wartime drift mine opened by the Bairds combine at the old ironworks village of Lugar.	East Ayrshire	1942–December 1953 (abandoned 1954)	Coal
Luing Slate Quarries Villages were purpose-built here for the slate trade in the 1820s — and the last of them kept quarrying until 1965, decades after most of Scotland's other slate islands had given up	Argyll and Bute	Worked from the mid-18th century–1965	Slate
Lumley Colliery A Lambton-owned colliery of a dozen numbered pits, worked from the 18th century until 1966.	County Durham	1790s–22 January 1966	Coal
Lumphinnans No 1 Colliery One of the oldest shafts in West Fife, sunk to work ironstone about 1826 and kept going through four owners until the National Coal Board closed it in 1957.	Fife	1826 (first pits)–25 January 1957	Coal, Ironstone
Lumphinnans XI and XII Colliery The Fife Coal Company's 'Peeweep', with shafts 410 and 169 metres deep, navigation coal and a peak of 764 people in 1947.	Fife	Before 1896–1966	Coal
Lumpsey Mine The one shaft mine among Bell Brothers' four, with hydraulic drills at the face, and the last of them to close.	North Yorkshire	from 1880 or 1882 (sources differ)	Ironstone
Lundhill Colliery 189 of the 200 men and boys underground were killed in 1857, and the fire that followed was put out by diverting a stream into the workings.	South Yorkshire	1853–1890s	Coal
Lundy Granite Quarries Abandoned in 1868 and barely touched since — the quarry, its tramway and its hospital are all still there.	Devon	1863–1868	Granite
Lunehead Mine A lead mine that turned into a barytes mine without stopping, and kept going for another forty years.	County Durham	By 1882–1942 (discontinued)	Barite, Lead
Lydbrook Colliery A Lydbrook colliery so mired in mortgages that the Crown's own solicitors lost track of who owned it.	Forest of Dean	Before 1862–1917	Coal
Lyn Colliery A Vale of Neath drift mine judged too steep and remote ever to be opencast.	Neath Port Talbot	1951–1 March 1997	Coal
Lynemouth Colliery Half of the Ellington Combine, which in the 1980s was reckoned the biggest undersea mine in the world.	Northumberland	1927–1994	Coal