Mines
106 mines beginning with P, of 1950.
| Mine | Region | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page Bank Colliery A fire in the shaft's timber lining trapped the men below, and it was finally put out with five barrels of gunpowder. |
County Durham | 1850s (sinking from 1853)–July 1931 | Coal |
| Pallaflat Iron Mine A Bigrigg haematite pit of 1874 to 1914 whose spoil heaps gave the mineral world its butterfly-twinned calcite and green baryte a lifetime after the ore ran out. |
Cumbria | Company formed 1874; No. 1 shaft working by 1884–Abandoned 1914 | Iron |
| Palmerston Quarry It undercut the quarry above it, and brought down 6.25 million tons of rock on itself. |
Gwynedd | 1825 (Welsh Slate Company lease)–1883; absorbed into Oakeley | Slate |
| Pandora Mine A Gwydir Forest lead-zinc mine whose ore fed the purpose-built Klondyke processing mill via a two-mile tramway along Llyn Geirionydd — later the stage for one of Welsh mining's most brazen 1920s investment frauds. |
Conwy | Worked intermittently from around 1868–1931 (mine); Klondyke mill closed 1911 | Lead, Zinc |
| Pantdreiniog Quarry Reopened in 1901 as a workers' cooperative by William John Parry, the 'Quarryman's Champion', specifically to employ men locked out of the neighbouring Penrhyn quarry during Britain's longest-ever industrial dispute -- and later renamed two of its own steam locomotives after the union's own leading figures. |
Gwynedd | Working from around 1825.–Closed for the final time in 1930. | Slate |
| Pantyffynnon Colliery An Amman valley anthracite slant driven 500 yards to reach its seam, rebuilt by the Coal Board in 1957 for another twenty-five years and shut eleven years later. |
Carmarthenshire | 1902 (earlier workings from the 1850s)–31 January 1969 | Anthracite, Coal |
| Parc Mine Interconnected underground with eleven other mines in the Gwydir Forest lead-mining district |
Conwy | 1855–1963 | Lead, Zinc |
| Park Slip Colliery The 1892 explosion here killed 112 men and boys, one of the worst mining disasters in Welsh history — the pit never fully recovered and closed twelve years later. |
Bridgend | 1860s, under John Brogden and Sons–1904 (following the 1892 disaster); brief reopening 1924 | Coal |
| Parkenoweth Mine Named in an 1868 parochial history as one of the more prosperous tin mines of the St Just district, alongside Levant, Boscaswell Downs and Wheal Owls -- though no account of its own individual working life has yet been located. |
Cornwall | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Tin |
| Parkfield Colliery Its Brandy Bottom engine house survives as a scheduled ancient monument, one of the most complete relics of the Bristol coalfield. |
Bristol | Sunk in 1851 by Handel Cossham; coal was reached in 1853.–Closed on 15 August 1936, as worsening flooding | Coal |
| Parkhall Colliery Its rope-hauled tramway outlived it: the landsale wharf it fed was still working for the Coal Board in the 1990s. |
Staffordshire | c. 1850s–1962 | Coal |
| Parkside Colliery The last new coal mine sunk in Lancashire, working from 1960 to 1993. |
Lancashire | sinking from 24 November 1957–1993 (production ceased c. October 1992; formally closed by June 1993) | Coal |
| Parrock Quarry A quarry that went from thirty-three people to three, and a foreman killed by the one arrangement on the site that needed checking every time. |
Cumbria | By 1894 in the official returns–Not worked in 1930 | Slate |
| Parsonage Colliery Its shafts to the Arley seam were the deepest in the country for years — the site is now a supermarket car park with a set of memorial panels to show for it. |
Lancashire | Sunk 1913-1920 (halted by WWI); first coal 1921–1992 | Coal |
| Parys Mountain Vast 18th-century opencast with a strikingly coloured mineral landscape |
Anglesey | Bronze Age–1904 | Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold |
| Peak Alum Works Peak's alum works burned through roughly 100 tons of shale, and up to 200 tons of imported human urine, every year — to make barely a fraction of that weight in alum, England's first great chemical industry running on little more than fire, patience and other people's waste. |
North Yorkshire | Discovered 1640; worked from 1650–1862 | Alum |
| Peakshill or Oden Sough Driven at real productive expense between 1726 and 1729 to both drain Odin Mine and hunt for new ore, the sough never found what it was looking for -- the vein dips away beneath Rushup Edge just beyond its end. |
Derbyshire | Driven between 1726 and 1729–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Lead |
| Peelwood Colliery A geological fault cut its workings in two — so the company simply sank a whole separate shaft, the Daisy Pit, to get at the coal on the other side of it. |
Greater Manchester | 1878-83–1929 | Coal |
| Pegswood Colliery Its lease obliged it to send the Duke of Portland fifty tons of best Pegswood coal a year, and twenty-five more to Bothal Castle. |
Northumberland | 13 May 1868–1969 | Coal |
| Pelsall Hall Colliery The South Staffordshire pit where twenty-two drowned in 1872 and one was never found |
West Midlands | By 1872–1892 | Coal |
| Pelton Colliery In one year it lost five boys riding coal tubs and then 24 men to an explosion the jury blamed on rules nobody kept. |
County Durham | 1835–February 1965 | Coal |
| Pen-ffordd-goch Ironstone Scours Iron ore won by turning water loose on a hillside — and datable to the year, because the scouring stopped when the reservoir that would have supplied it was built in 1817. |
Blaenau Gwent | At least the 17th century–By 1817 (scouring) | Ironstone, Coal |
| Pen-y-Bryn Mine Became, for a period in the 20th century, the centre of the large-scale Halkyn District United Mines operation, itself an amalgamation of nine former mining companies. |
Flintshire | early 20th century–1970s (headframe dismantled 1987) | Lead, Zinc |
| Pen-y-Bryn Quarry The quarry's own name comes from a 17th-century house that continued to be lived in even while the quarry worked around it, remaining occupied until after the Second World War -- and the complex of surviving buildings, including its workers' cottages, a saw mill and a weighbridge, is unusually complete for a Nantlle Valley quarry. |
Gwynedd | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Slate |
| Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Britain's last working Blondins were lifting slate out of these pits until 1979 — and one of them is still hanging there |
Gwynedd | 1816–1979 | Slate |
| Penallta Colliery The site's most striking monument isn't the surviving headgear but Sultan — a 656-foot earth sculpture of a pit pony, built entirely from the colliery's own spoil. |
Caerphilly | Sinking from 1905; first coal raised 1909–1 November 1991 | Coal |
| Penberthy Croft Mine A small Cornish copper mine whose waste dumps became Britain's richest source of secondary lead, copper and arsenic minerals |
Cornwall | 1798–Late 1840s, with a further phase 1881-83 | Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead |
| Pendarves Mine Simms Shaft, sunk in 1967-68, was the first entirely new shaft sunk anywhere in Cornwall in forty years -- a rare vote of confidence in tin mining that the 1985 tin crash ended within two decades. |
Cornwall | 1967 (Simms Shaft sunk 1967-68)–1984, or after the October 1985 tin crash | Tin |
| Pendeen Consols Its old workings now lie directly beneath Pendeen Lighthouse. |
Cornwall | 1856–1870 | Tin, Copper |
| Pendlebury Colliery A Manchester Coalfield pit better known by the name of its neighbouring pub than its own, worked to nearly 1,800 feet and eventually tunnelled through to a second colliery to keep going. |
Greater Manchester | 1846–June 1961 | Coal |
| Pendleton Colliery George Stephenson, the railway pioneer, sat on its board while his own brother ran the pit day to day — and it went on to become, for a time, the deepest coal mine in Britain. |
Greater Manchester | Late 1820s–1939 | Coal |
| Penhalls Mine A St Agnes tin mine assembled from several smaller setts, later half of Wheal Kitty and Penhalls United |
Cornwall | Worked by 1834; amalgamated setts–1884 (independent working); 1930 (as Penhalls United) | Tin, Copper |
| Penlee Quarry Cornwall's most westerly railway ran from this quarry to Newlyn pier — 2 ft gauge, and one of the last industrial narrow-gauge lines working in Britain. |
Cornwall | 1879–1991 | Whinstone, Copper, Zinc |
| Penmachno Quarry The largest slate quarry in Wales that never had a railway, carting its slate eleven kilometres over the mountain, with a water-wheel incline now scheduled as unique. |
Conwy | 1818–1962 | Slate |
| Penmaenmawr Granite Quarry The quarry ate the hill it was named after, taking down a Neolithic axe factory and an Iron Age hillfort with it. |
Conwy | Commercial quarrying from the 1830s–Still active | Granite |
| Penmon Quarry The limestone that built both bridges over the Menai Strait, shipped across the water by boat from the quarry that cut it. |
Anglesey | 18th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Limestone |
| Pennerley Mine Two Bronze Age barrows stand on the summit of nearby Round Hill, a reminder that people were doing something purposeful on this hillside a very long time before anyone thought to call it Pennerley or start digging for lead. |
Shropshire | worked by the 18th century; main phase from 1879-80–1884 (main lead working); baryte worked to 1925 | Lead, Barite |
| Pennyvenie Colliery It outlasted every other pit in the Doon Valley, and when it stopped in 1978 deep coal mining in that part of Ayrshire stopped for good |
East Ayrshire | Production from 1872–1978 | Coal |
| Penrhiw Mine Began life as a chance discovery made by Ystumtuen's own miners working beyond their lease boundary, under its original name Pen y Berth or Berth Ddu. |
Ceredigion | c. 1727–Known to have been at work until 1882 | Lead, Zinc |
| Penrhyn Quarry The world's largest slate quarry at its 19th-century peak; still Britain's largest today |
Gwynedd | 1770s–Still active | Slate |
| Penrikyber Colliery Six years and £130,000 to sink through running sand before it raised a ton of coal — and the first of it came up on a wooden headgear. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 1872–1985 | Coal |
| Pensford Colliery Its tall colliery chimney still stands near the village, the most visible surviving relic of the Somerset coalfield in an otherwise pastoral landscape. |
Somerset | Sunk in 1909 by Pensford and Bromley Collieries Ltd–Closed in 1955. | Coal |
| Pentre Colliery Thirty-eight killed on the night shift in 1871 — two of them rescuers who were overcome by afterdamp the moment their cage touched the pit bottom. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 1857–1929 | Coal |
| Pentreclwydau Colliery The NCB planned it for 1,000 men and bought a £150,000 continuous miner for it, but faulted ground meant it lasted only nine years; its post-war concrete fanhouse and engine houses are now a scheduled monument. |
Neath Port Talbot | Drifts begun 1955; production from 1958–27 May 1967 (NCB); later reopened | Coal |
| Penwyllt Quarry A quarry village built by an indigo importer, served by a tramroad he went bankrupt building — and undercut by the longest cave system in Wales. |
Powys | c. 1820–Brickworks 1937 or 1939; quarrying continues nearby | Limestone, Silica Sand |
| Penyard Colliery Sources disagree sharply on its lifespan — one gives a small 1901 closure, the other keeps it working within the wider Dowlais Collieries group until 1924. |
Merthyr Tydfil | 1873–1901, or as late as 1924 (see history) | Coal |
| Penylan Quarry Cardiff's oldest rocks, quarried for building stone and found to be crammed with Silurian fossils. |
Cardiff | By the mid-19th century–Not worked since the 19th century | Sandstone |
| Perkinsbeach Mine One of the twelve sites in the Shropshire Mines Trust's field guide to the Stiperstones mines; despite a genuine search, no history specific to this site beyond that listing could be located. |
Shropshire | 1850s (lead); 1889 (barytes)–1912 (barytes); abandoned 1925 | Lead, Barite |
| Perthyglisson Colliery Fed local ironworks under a chain of owners including the Plymouth Iron Company, working the Cefn Glas seam by 1890. |
Merthyr Tydfil | By 1858–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal |
| Phoenix United Mine Its 1907 revival, opened with royal ceremony and the last big pumping engine built in Cornwall, raised just 95 tons of black tin before the money ran out in 1914. |
Cornwall | 1836–1914 | Copper, Tin |
| Pillar Mine The rock pillar that gave the mine its name, left standing inside the entrance for generations of visitors, was finally demolished by vandals in the 1970s. |
Cheshire | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Copper |
| Pin Dale Lead Side Veins Believed to be a nationally unique feature, its narrow hand-cut slits -- some only 40cm wide -- are the sole known example of Derbyshire miners cutting straight into a limestone crag face to follow a side vein. |
Derbyshire | Before the mid-18th century (pre-dynamite)–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Lead |
| Pirnie Colliery The Methilhill cannel pit whose Parrot coal fed a paraffin refinery at Methil harbour, and whose purchase in 1877 helped turn the Fife Coal Company back to profit. |
Fife | 1856–c. 1920s (date not established) | Coal, Cannel Coal |
| Pitstone Chalk Quarry and Cement Works A quarry that dug out the hill for cement and left a lake, a nature reserve and an office block behind it. |
Buckinghamshire | 1937–1991 | Limestone, Chalk |
| Placket Mine In 1856 a Barmaster's jury sent to settle Placket's quarrel with its neighbour over ground under the churchyard found the rival mine locked against them. |
Derbyshire | By 1766–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Lead |
| Plas Power Colliery A pioneer of electric power underground, whose central generating station lit two other collieries and still stands at Southsea. |
Wrexham | 1875 (coal from 1877)–1938 | Coal |
| Plassddu Quarry One of at least 37 quarries once at work in the Nantlle Valley, a slate district notable for its many small, independently-run operations rather than a handful of large integrated enterprises. |
Gwynedd | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Slate |
| Plean Colliery Its site is now a country park; twelve men died here in the explosion of 1922 |
Stirling | production by 1901–1962 (abandoned 1963) | Coal |
| Pleasley Colliery Britain's only surviving colliery with two steam winding engines set back-to-back in one engine house; both preserved and restored by volunteers |
Derbyshire | 1873 (shaft sinking); 1877 (production)–1983 | Coal |
| Plynlimmon Mine The highest mine in mid-Wales, whose underground shape has been reconstructed from Victorian trade-press reports |
Ceredigion | Worked from 1867–1897 | Lead |
| Pochin Colliery Fourteen men repairing a pump died here in 1884, with all forty-three ponies stabled underground; a fifteenth man fell down the shaft in the crush at the pithead. |
Blaenau Gwent | Sunk from 1876; first coal 1881–1964 | Coal, Ironstone |
| Point of Ayr Colliery North Wales's last working colliery; extended out beneath the Dee Estuary until closure in 1996 |
Flintshire | 1883 (company formed); 1890 (main seam struck)–1996 | Coal |
| Polberro Mine Its tin was so pure it went straight from the mine to the smelter without dressing, and was sold as Diamond Tin. |
Cornwall | By the 1730s–1941 | Tin, Copper |
| Poldark Mine A tin mine abandoned around 1780 was rediscovered two centuries later, reopened as a tourist attraction, and then renamed after — and used to film — the very TV drama that made Cornish mining famous to a national audience. |
Cornwall | c. 1720–c. 1780 | Tin |
| Poldice Mine Poldice's three-act history — tin, then copper, then arsenic — tracks the entire arc of Cornish hard-rock mining in miniature, each shift in product driven by exactly the kind of market collapse and diversification that played out across the county as a whole. |
Cornwall | by 1512 (documented); certainly worked by the 17th century–1930 | Copper, Tin, Arsenic |
| Poldory Mine One of the three founding mines of United Mines -- alongside Ale and Cakes Mine and Wheal Cupboard, both already documented on this archive -- worked mainly on the 'Great South Lode' and, further north, the aptly-named 'Hot Lode', named for its extreme temperatures at greater depth. |
Cornwall | Probably active by 1760 as a small-scale tin mine.–Closed around 1870 as part of Clifford Amalgamated Mines | Tin, Copper |
| Polhigey Mine A small Wendron tin mine worked from the 1850s and revived in the 1920s, abandoned in 1930. |
Cornwall | By 1850–1930 (abandonment plans) | Tin |
| Polkemmet Colliery A West Lothian coal mine worked through the 20th century. |
West Lothian | No. 1 shaft sunk 1913; No. 2 shaft sunk 1916; production from 1921–1986 (flooded 1984) | Coal |
| Polmaise Colliery The pit that sparked the whole 1984-85 miners' strike outlived the strike itself by two more years — the closure the NCB blamed on geology came anyway, just later than announced. |
Stirling | Shafts sunk from January 1904–Announced December 1983; finally closed 15 July 1987 | Coal |
| Poltesco Serpentine Works A Cornish cove that briefly supplied mantelpieces to royalty, undone in the end by one lost, uninsured shipment. |
Cornwall | Small-scale working from the early 18th century; factory built 1855-66–1893 | Serpentine, Talc |
| Pont y Fenni Quarry Fossils that survived the folding of South Wales, in a roadside face the size of a tennis court. |
Carmarthenshire | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Disused by 1985, when the site was notified | Mudstone |
| Ponthenry Colliery The Gwendraeth Valley pit whose gas and coal-dust outbursts killed ten men in the 1920s and closed it with its coal still in the ground. |
Carmarthenshire | 1865 (possibly working by the 1820s)–1936 | Coal |
| Pontyberem Colliery A Gwendraeth valley anthracite colliery worked through slants, swallowed by the 1920s amalgamations |
Carmarthenshire | 1845–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Anthracite |
| Pontyclerc Colliery A colliery that spent years mining only clay for its own brickworks, whose bricks stamped 'P C' still turn up around Ammanford. |
Carmarthenshire | Possibly 1835; recorded 1858–1934 | Coal, Fireclay |
| Pooley Hall Colliery The first colliery in Britain to have an underground lavatory — installed with a rosewood seat for a royal visit in 1924, and removed within a week because the stench had become unbearable. |
Warwickshire | 1850–1965 | Coal |
| Port Mulgrave Mine Rather than build a second harbour once the nearer ore ran out, the company simply tunnelled another mile underground to reach the richer ground at Grinkle -- moving the mine to the harbour instead of the other way round. |
North Yorkshire | 1856–1870s | Iron |
| Portland Colliery The Gilmours’ Ayrshire colliery, worked from a scatter of pits between Kilmarnock and Hurlford, and the scene of two fatal explosions a quarter of a century apart. |
East Ayrshire | By 1856–After 1938 | Coal, Fireclay |
| Portland Stone Quarries One of the few UK quarries to have deliberately converted from open working to underground mining specifically to reduce its surface footprint. |
Dorset | Worked since at least the Roman period–Still active | Limestone |
| Portway Lead Mine The earliest recorded lead mine in the whole Winster mining area, dating back to the 1650s -- and named after the prehistoric Portway trackway it stands beside, on its route between Mam Tor and the edge of Nottingham. |
Derbyshire | 1650s–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Lead |
| Potter's Pit One of the four mines -- alongside Tankerville, Pennerley and Bog Mine -- combined into Tankerville Great Consols in 1879-80 under Peter Watson, a director of the already-published Devon Great Consols in Devon. |
Shropshire | Working by 1879–By 1884 | Lead |
| Potts Ghyll Mine Barytes the lead miners had thrown away, dug out of the Caldbeck Fells for munitions. |
Cumbria | 1844–Working into the 1940s | Barite |
| Poynton Collieries The largest collieries in Cheshire, held by one family for a century — and the place where a Boulton and Watt agent went in 1796 to catch a rival infringing the separate-condenser patent, and found the engine man half drunk on Good Friday. |
Cheshire | By 1600–30 August 1935 | Coal |
| Preseli Bluestone Quarries If the quarrying interpretation is right, this is the oldest working record in the entire archive by roughly four and a half thousand years — and archaeologists still argue about whether it happened at all |
Pembrokeshire | Neolithic working, radiocarbon dated to around 3000 BC–c. 3000 BC (no later working) | — |
| Prestongrange Colliery The earliest colliery in Scotland to be recorded in writing, and the only Cornish beam engine north of the border |
East Lothian | 12th century; the final colliery's first shaft sunk 1830–1962 | Coal, Fireclay |
| Prestonhill Quarry A century of whinstone shipped from its own pier — and a flooded pit that now trains Navy and fire-service divers while claiming the lives of swimmers. |
Fife | 1896–1980s | Whinstone |
| Prestonlinks Colliery The last underground pit in East Lothian, closed in 1964 and cleared away entirely to make room for Cockenzie power station. |
East Lothian | 1899–February 1964 | Coal |
| Pretoria Pit (Hulton Colliery Bank Pit) The third-worst mining disaster in British history happened here on the last working day before Christmas 1910; the pit then worked on quietly for another twenty-three years. |
Greater Manchester | Shafts sunk 1900–01–14 April 1934 | Coal |
| Price's Colliery A Dowlais Iron Company level raising both ironstone and coal for the works, abandoned with the rest of the group in May 1924. |
Merthyr Tydfil | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–May 1924 | Coal |
| Priddy (St Cuthbert's) Lead Works The 1863 dye-tracing experiment that proved St Cuthbert's wastewater reached Wookey Hole within eight hours — after chaff and ink had both failed to show up — is one of the earliest documented uses of dye tracing to prove underground water connections anywhere in Britain. |
Somerset | AD 49 (Roman)–1908 | Lead, Silver |
| Primrose Colliery Fourteen men and boys and seven horses were suffocated underground in 1858 not by firedamp but by the fumes of the colliery's own engine boiler. |
Neath Port Talbot | 1840–Early 1900s | Coal |
| Prince Edward Gold Mine Gold from this remote hillside mine is said to have gone into the bar from which royal wedding rings were made, and its adit still has the strongroom where the gold was locked away. |
Gwynedd | Recorded 1895 (as Moel Croesau)–1935 | Gold |
| Prince of Wales Colliery The 1878 Abercarn colliery disaster killed 268 men and boys in one of the deadliest firedamp explosions in the South Wales coalfield. |
Caerphilly | first sunk 1836; redeveloped 1859-62–shafts filled and site cleared 1959 | Coal |
| Prince of Wales Mine The only site in east Cornwall to retain the remains of all three types of mine engine house -- one each for pumping, winding and stamping ore -- side by side. |
Cornwall | First recorded as Wheal Goodluck in 1580–Last worked in 1977 (exploratory adit) | Copper, Tin, Arsenic |
| Prince of Wales Quarry A grandly-named Welsh slate quarry that failed within a decade, leaving its buildings and workings unusually intact as a snapshot of an unmodernised Victorian venture. |
Gwynedd | 1873–By 1886 | Slate |
| Princess Royal Colliery Unprofitable for half a century under five different owners before finally becoming one of the Forest of Dean's most productive collieries — its listed 1939 pithead baths are now home to a colony of bats. |
Forest of Dean | 1842 (gale); 1897 (Yorkley Seam production)–30 March 1962 | Coal |
| Prospect Lead Mine A lead mine at Alport recorded by the Derbyshire Historic Environment Record. |
Derbyshire | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Lead |
| Providence Mine The mine that Kettlewell village was built on the fortunes of, and the one whose own workers went on to found its rival across the valley. |
North Yorkshire | 1663–1874 | Lead |
| Prudhoe Colliery A Tyne valley colliery whose workforce halved twice in five years, and whose sixteen recorded deaths are almost all haulage: men and boys run over by their own tubs. |
Northumberland | By 1860–After 1930 | Coal, Fireclay |
| Pulloxhill Gold Mine A royal gold mine seized by the Crown in 1680, besieged by prospectors for months, and found to contain nothing but flakes of mica |
Bedfordshire | 1680–Abandoned by 1683, or possibly worked on until about 1750 | Gold |
| Pumpherston Oil Works The historic heart of Scotland's shale oil industry, and namesake of the standard Pumpherston retort design used across the whole trade |
West Lothian | 1883-84–1964 (refinery); early 1990s (detergent plant) | Oil Shale |
| Punchard Gill Mine Miners here built a canal level in 1820 specifically to float ore and spoil out of the workings by water, and the site later became one of only four Arkengarthdale coal mines still working after 1900, struggling on until 1927 against better-quality coal shipped in from County Durham. |
North Yorkshire | By 1521–The coal working closed in 1927 | Lead, Coal |
| Purbeck Marble Quarries Salisbury Cathedral alone used some 3,000 columns of it — cut from shafts sunk barely wider than a man |
Dorset | Worked since Roman times; medieval peak 12th-14th centuries–Commercial extraction ceased in the 1990s | Limestone |
| Purfleet Chalk Pits Quarried since at least 1554 because the chalk met the river — and the faces it opened gave geologists an entire interglacial, named after the place. |
Essex | By 1554–Early 1920s (cement works and quarry) | Chalk |
| Putwell Hill Mine After centuries as a lead mine, its vein was reworked from the 1880s purely for fluorspar -- with its own embanked sidings built to load spar directly onto the Midland Railway below. |
Derbyshire | Documented from the late 16th century–Fluorspar working continued until 1931 | Lead, Fluorspar |
| Pwllbach Colliery A small Swansea valley anthracite pit that spent twenty years employing fewer than a hundred people and then grew eightfold in the anthracite boom. |
Neath Port Talbot | By 1894–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal, Anthracite, Fireclay |
| Pye Hill Colliery The Jacksdale pit of 1874 that ended as the surface for three amalgamated collieries, its winding wheel now a memorial at Underwood. |
Nottinghamshire | 1874–August 1985 | Coal |