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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Sacriston Colliery A man was found alive on top of his coal tub after 92 hours in the dark, surrounded by the flood water that had killed two of his workmates.	County Durham	1839–1985	Coal, Fireclay
Saddlebole Mine A previously unknown shaft here was found only in recent years by the author Alan Garner, whose own rediscovery of a Bronze Age shovel elsewhere on the Edge in 1993 helped transform understanding of the site's ancient mining history.	Cheshire	from Documented from 1693	Copper, Cobalt
Saint Vincent's Colliery A Forest of Dean gale whose coal was no good, kept alive by the brick clay lying underneath it.	Forest of Dean	from 1844	Coal, Brick Clay
Saline Valley Colliery A Steelend hillside colliery begun in 1890 as the Sunnybraes pit, which changed owners three times and was briefly revived as Dean Valley in 1929.	Fife	1890–1912	Coal
Sallet Hole Mine Mixed lead/barytes/fluorspar mine near Stoney Middleton, worked from at least the 17th century, underground fluorspar production continued to 1998.	Derbyshire	at least 17th century (as a sough)–1998	Lead, Fluorspar
Sallies Mine A Shropshire barytes mine worked by Malehurst Barytes until 1947, whose shaft now supplies the Gatten estate's water.	Shropshire	to 1947	Barite
Salterford Drift Mine A post-war Coal Board drift that out-produced every other pit in its division in 1950, then vanished so completely under landscaping that nothing now shows.	Lancashire	1948–December 1959	Coal
Saltom Colliery An engineer who lit the way underground with sparks rather than flame, at a mine that tried to pipe its own gas to light Whitehaven's streets.	Cumbria	1729–1848 (pumping continued to 1866)	Coal
Saltwells Wood Coal Workings Medieval bell pits and gin circles in a Black Country wood, where the brine that welled up in the workings gave Saltwells its name.	West Midlands	From at least the 1300s–1960s	Coal
Saltwick Nab Alum Quarries Alum shale quarries on the headland east of Whitby, worked intermittently from 1649 to 1791, with steeping pits, cisterns and a slipway on the foreshore.	North Yorkshire	1649–1791	Alum
Sandbed Mine A rare case where a single lode's exhaustion at one mine -- Driggith -- directly shifted a succession of companies' attention next door to Sandbed, rather than ending the district's mining outright.	Cumbria	18th century–1966	Lead, Copper, Zinc
Sandhole Colliery Its winding engines shared one ornamental engine house between two shafts — and the colliery itself absorbed its exhausted neighbour's last reserves rather than let them go to waste.	Greater Manchester	1865–1962	Coal
Sandlodge Mine Shetland's most productive metal mine; worked on and off for well over a century against constant flooding	Shetland Islands	c. 1790–1929	Copper, Iron
Sandwell Park Colliery The most notable Black Country venture of its day: the first colliery to work the concealed coalfield east of the boundary fault, and the model for Hamstead.	West Midlands	1870–1960	Coal
Sankey Brook Colliery A St Helens pit where six fell 200 yards in 1857 down a shaft the inspector had already condemned.	Merseyside	By the 1840s–About 1876 (probably)	Coal
Sanquhar Coalfield One of Scotland's oldest recorded coalfields, once the largest privately owned coal concern in the country, peaking at over 2,000 miners in the 1920s.	Dumfries and Galloway	From late 18th century–1968 (closure)	Coal
Sark's Hope Silver Mine The only metal mine in the Channel Islands to ship ore, and the venture whose debts cost the Le Pelley family the fief of Sark.	Sark	1833 (Le Pot)–1845 (mining ceased)	Silver, Copper, Lead
Saron Colliery A 1915 anthracite slant opened on the ground of a Victorian pit, so that one site carried two collieries forty years apart.	Carmarthenshire	1915–1956	Coal
Savile Colliery The miners' strike that closed so many pits kept this one open: it was due to shut in 1983 and worked until 1985.	West Yorkshire	1874–1985	Coal
Scaitcliffe Colliery A colliery in the middle of Accrington, worked from a single thin seam for seventy years.	Lancashire	1880 (sinking began)–29 June 1962	Coal
Scotgate Ash Quarry Stand on the platform at York, Paddington or Victoria and the edge under your feet may have come off this hillside.	North Yorkshire	By 1351–1915	Sandstone
Scott's Pit A Llansamlet pit whose Cornish pumping engine house still stands, and where the Davy lamp is thought to have first been used in South Wales.	Swansea	1770s (1817-19 by another account)–c. 1842	Coal
Scrabo Quarries The sandstone that built much of Victorian Belfast, preserved for quarrying by the sheet of molten dolerite that capped it sixty million years ago.	County Down	Anglo-Norman period–20th century	Sandstone
Scraithole Mine The mine that outlasted the whole Carrshield complex, working until 1981 and then closing not because the ore ran out but because sphalerite and witherite could not be told apart at a profit.	Northumberland	By the 19th century–1981	Lead, Zinc, Witherite
Scremerston Colliery A Greenwich Hospital pit whose 1840 engine house still carries the names of its builders.	Northumberland	By 1769–1944	Coal, Fireclay
Seafield Colliery Closed in 1988 with an estimated 200 million tonnes of good-quality coal still in the ground beneath the Forth — a reserve abandoned on economic grounds rather than exhaustion.	Fife	12 May 1954 (sinking)–January 1988	Coal
Seaforth Colliery A New Cumnock pit of 1940-53 named after its manager's house, which took its name from the Highland earldom of Seaforth.	East Ayrshire	1940–1953	Coal
Seaham Colliery A message scratched on a water bottle by a dying hewer in 1880 is the best-known thing ever written underground in County Durham.	County Durham	13 April 1849 (sinking)–1988 (merged with Vane Tempest, 1983)	Coal, Fireclay
Seathwaite Wad Mine Stealing graphite from this one Cumbrian fellside was made a felony by Act of Parliament in 1752 — the mineral was worth more than the miners.	Cumbria	15th century (earliest indirect evidence)–1891	Graphite
Seaton Burn Colliery A North Tyneside colliery of 1844 that lost four men to a boiler explosion in 1860, whose Brenkley Drift became Northumberland's smallest National Coal Board pit.	Tyne and Wear	1844–17 August 1965	Coal, Fireclay
Seaton Colliery The Hetton owners' pit beside Seaham, called the Nicky Nack in 1852, which the Londonderrys bought and merged into Seaham in 1864.	County Durham	1844 (sinking)–1864 (merged with Seaham)	Coal
Seaton Delaval Colliery A dozen shafts sunk on the Delaval estate over more than a century, and the pit village named in 'Blackleg Miner'.	Northumberland	1838–1960	Coal, Fireclay
Sedling Rake Mine The mine takes its name from the packhorse track that served it, not the other way round -- the 'rake' outlived the workings it once supplied, and still crosses the moor today as a green lane.	County Durham	1818–1948	Lead, Fluorspar
Seedlow Lead Mine A detailed account of the mine's 1764-71 working, by Robert Thornhill, was published in the Peak District Mines Historical Society's own journal in 1962 -- one of the society's earliest pieces of published research into an individual Derbyshire lead mine.	Derbyshire	Medieval–mid-19th century	Lead
Seend Ironstone Quarry A brief Victorian iron rush saw three 50-foot blast furnaces built at this greensand ironstone quarry before high transport costs closed them within three decades; the site is now recognised as one of only two known Lower Cretaceous ironstone deposits in Britain.	Wiltshire	At least 1666–1889/90	Iron
Seghill Colliery Its manager opened the door between Seghill and Burradon in 1860 so the dead could be brought out that way.	Northumberland	1824–28 September 1962	Coal, Fireclay
Seneley Green Colliery A century of small workings at Seneley Green, ending in a costly NCB drift abandoned within two years as the seam thinned to a foot.	Merseyside	By 1848–1951	Coal
Serridge Pit Its name survives today chiefly through an official Coal Authority abandonment plan that groups it together with Ram Hill and several numbered Coalpit Heath pits on a single combined sheet -- evidence of how closely interlinked this district's underground workings were.	Gloucestershire	c.1785–after 1845	Coal
Settlingstones Mine For nearly a century, one small Northumberland mine was the entire world's commercial supply of a mineral almost nowhere else on Earth.	Northumberland	By 1670–1969	Witherite
Seven Sisters Colliery Named for the seven sisters at the cutting of its first sod, and the reason the village around it is called Seven Sisters at all.	Neath Port Talbot	1872–1963	Coal
Seymour Colliery A Staveley company pit on one seam, with a village of a hundred houses beside it.	Derbyshire	1855 (sinking)–1918	Coal
Shakerley Colliery Its owner vanished on the way to the bank in 1869, and his wife kept the pits working until he walked home from Liverpool.	Greater Manchester	1830s or 1840s–1938	Coal
Shakespeare Colliery Kent's first colliery, dug where the first Channel Tunnel had been abandoned, which drowned its sinkers, was shown off to shareholders with Newcastle coal, and never paid its way.	Kent	1896–December 1915	Coal
Shankhouse Colliery A Cramlington pit village colliery flooded in the 1860s when strike-breaking Cornishmen broke into old workings, and later part of Hartley Main.	Northumberland	1847 (sinking begun)–1938–1941	Coal
Shap Granite Quarries Its distinctive pink feldspar crystals have made Shap granite one of Britain's most recognisable building stones for over 150 years.	Cumbria	1864–Still active	Granite
Sharkham Point Iron Mine A Devon hematite mine worked for over a century, its ore shipped to South Wales and Hartlepool, now a nature conservation area with several accessible adits.	Devon	c. 1790–1914-15	Iron
Sharlston Colliery Its pit wheel wasn't just retired — it was cut clean in half, with one piece placed at each end of the village's main road, so nobody in Sharlston passes through without seeing it.	West Yorkshire	1858–July 1993	Coal
Shaw Beck Gill Mine A lead level in the valley of Shaw Beck, marked on historical Ordnance Survey maps, documented among the cluster of workings -- alongside Booze, Slei Gill, Punchard Gill, Whaw, Wetshaw and Fell End -- that made up Arkengarthdale's lead-mining industry.	North Yorkshire	—	Lead
Shaw Cross Colliery A twentieth-century Dewsbury pit that grew to nearly 900 men and worked on under the Coal Board into the late 1960s.	West Yorkshire	c. 1904–c. 1968	Coal
Sherburn Hill Colliery From 400 tons a day and 300 men in 1894 to a wholly machine-mined pit winning 1,500 tons a day by 1937.	County Durham	1835–7 August 1965	Coal
Sherburn House Colliery A Lambton pit east of Durham that ran out its Hutton in 1894 and lasted forty more years on the seams below and above.	County Durham	1844–May 1935	Coal
Sherdley Colliery Kept on as a pumping station for years after its own coal stopped, because it sat up dip.	Merseyside	1872–1944	Coal
Sheriff Hill Colliery The gassiest pit on Gateshead Fell, where four explosions and a fire between 1793 and 1819 killed at least 65, thirty-three of them boys in a single morning.	Tyne and Wear	By 1793–by 1895-97	Coal
Sheriffyards Colliery An Alloa Coal Company colliery near Tillicoultry, sunk in the 1890s and employing 437 by 1910.	Clackmannanshire	1894–1921	Coal
Sherwood Colliery A Mansfield Woodhouse pit that set a world tunnelling record and a British output record.	Nottinghamshire	1901 (sinking)–January 1992	Coal
Shettleston Colliery An east Glasgow colliery where an unearthed pump switchbox electrocuted a foreman in 1916 and gas burned five men in 1927.	Glasgow	By 1862–1936	Coal
Shevington Colliery A small Wigan pit, the Prince Albert, where a former fireman's lamp key caused a thirteen-death explosion.	Greater Manchester	1855–1890	Coal
Shieldmains Colliery An Ayrshire colliery of fourteen numbered pits and mines, the last of them worked until 1950.	East Ayrshire	By 1900–March 1950	Coal
Shilbottle Colliery Bought by the Co-operative Wholesale Society for £50 — and the only pit in the district to give its men paid holiday and a pension.	Northumberland	1807–1982	Coal
Shilburnhaugh Colliery A tiny Falstone drift worked by two to ten men, whose valley now lies under Kielder Water.	Northumberland	By 1882–25 January 1928	Coal
Shildon Colliery A Victorian Shildon pit sunk through quicksand to the Busty and Brockwell seams, which closed in 1924 and reopened briefly for the Harvey.	County Durham	1869–15 March 1924	Coal
Shildon Lead Mine The only Cornish-style engine house in the North East, later lived in as flats called 'Shildon Castle'.	Northumberland	by 1806 (engine house c. 1805-06)	Lead
Shildon Lodge Colliery A Bolckow, Vaughan pit at Shildon begun on the Surtees estate in 1830.	County Durham	1830–1937	Coal
Shincliffe Colliery A colliery won amid celebration in 1839 whose village, emptied by its closure, lost even its name.	County Durham	1839 (sinking from 1837)–1875 (abandoned 1886)	Coal
Shipcote Colliery A John Bowes pit at Shipcote whose single shaft cut nine coal seams on its way down to the Hutton.	Tyne and Wear	c. 1855-1856–c. 1880	Coal
Shipley Colliery The Miller Mundy estate collieries, with their own canal, whose Woodside pit is remembered by a scaled-down headstock.	Derbyshire	By the mid-18th century–1960s	Coal
Shire Moor Colliery The Tynemouth common pit where the first electric coal-cutter was tried in 1902.	Tyne and Wear	By 1764–1915	Coal
Shirebrook Colliery A mining village of 600 people became a town of 11,000 within fifteen years of this pit being sunk — one of the fastest transformations of any community in this archive.	Derbyshire	1896–April 1993	Coal
Shireoaks Colliery Five years of sinking before it struck coal in 1859 — and though it stood in Nottinghamshire it spent its last twenty-three years administered from South Yorkshire.	Nottinghamshire	1859–May 1990	Coal
Shirland Colliery A Derbyshire pit the South Yorkshire miners' union bought in 1875, worked for a century until 1965.	Derbyshire	1864–May 1965	Coal
Shortheath Colliery A Willenhall pit whose 1879 explosion put its manager before a court over a blocked ventilation gap.	West Midlands	by about 1873	Coal
Shortwood Colliery Bought by Handel Cossham in 1871 and reduced to pumping and ventilation for Parkfield.	South Gloucestershire	Probably late 18th century–1936	Coal
Shotton Colliery A large east Durham colliery of 1840 that stood idle for twenty years before Horden Collieries reopened it, working until 1972.	County Durham	1840–1 September 1972	Coal
Shotton Surface Mine Its spoil was landscaped into a quarter-mile-long reclining woman and opened as a park eight years before the mine stopped.	Northumberland	2007–2020	Coal, Fireclay
Shotts Iron Works Under the slogan 'Shotts lights the world' this ironworks' decorative gas lamp standards were exported across the British Empire, and can still be seen on the streets of Edinburgh's New Town.	North Lanarkshire	16 April 1801 (lease)–1951	Iron
Shuttle Eye Colliery Started by the landlord of the Blacksmiths Arms at Grange Moor crossroads, worked for over a century, and now under warehouses.	West Yorkshire	1862–1973	Coal
Sil Howe Whinstone Mine An adit driven 1,770 feet under Goathland Moor to reach the Cleveland Dyke from below, its 1899 offices carved with the motto 'Lead thou me on'.	North Yorkshire	By 1899 (datestone)–by 1951	Whinstone
Silence Mine A 1738 dispute over possession rights turned violent enough that 30-40 men defended the mine day and night against the sheriff's own officers -- a dispute not finally settled until Articles of Agreement were signed eleven years later, in 1749.	Derbyshire	Worked from 1713–1885	Lead
Silksworth Colliery Lord Londonderry’s model colliery village, and the place where 150 eviction warrants were served on striking miners’ families in February 1891.	Tyne and Wear	1869–6 November 1971	Coal
Silver Gill Mine Few British mine sites carry an archaeological date as precise as Silver Gill's: excavation has pinned its earliest workings to 1020-1200, a rare case of a medieval mine dated by evidence rather than inference from documents.	Cumbria	1020-1200–late Elizabethan period	Lead, Copper, Silver
Silver Hillocks Mine Its knockstones were the anvils women worked at with 'bucking hammers' to break down freshly-drawn ore -- the only such examples left standing in Derbyshire.	Derbyshire	—	Lead
Silver Valley Mine A silver-and-tin trial beside the Hurlers that wartime Canadian engineers spent £25,000 on without raising an ounce.	Cornwall	1815–1942 (last attempt)	Silver, Tin
Silverband Mine Historic England rates the surviving ropeway the best example of its kind used in metal mining anywhere in England — and, according to one study, parts of the dismantled system went on to a second life at the Aviemore Ski Centre in Scotland.	Cumbria	From the 19th century–1960s (closure)	Barite, Lead
Silverbrook Mine The engine tower here is so thoroughly reclaimed by ivy that walkers regularly take it for an ornamental folly, with no idea a lead mine's pumping engine once stood inside it.	Devon	1852–1850s	Lead, Silver
Silverdale Colliery The last deep mine in North Staffordshire, closed on Christmas Eve 1998 — and its spoil heap has been burning since 1996.	Staffordshire	1830–December 1998	Coal, Ironstone
Silverhill Colliery Set a European record for thin-seam coal mining just four years before closing for good — its old spoil tip is now crowned by a bronze miner testing for gas that never comes.	Nottinghamshire	1875–March 1993 (production ceased October 1992)	Coal
Silverwood Colliery A Rotherham colliery twice visited by reigning monarchs, marked by tragedy in a 1966 underground train collision, now reclaimed as parkland and a nature reserve.	South Yorkshire	1900 (sinking)–1994	Coal
Sipton Mine Its shaft housed the last hydraulic hoist engine used anywhere in the North Pennine orefield, in service until the mine's final closure in 1946, and supported its own workers' housing terrace and a Wesleyan chapel.	Northumberland	1850s (discovery)–1985	Lead, Fluorspar
Sir Francis Level (Lownathwaite Mine) Sir Francis Level holds a genuine claim to technological distinction: the compressed-air rock drills installed here in 1870 were the first ever used in a Yorkshire mine, and the underground hydraulic engine that survives from the same era of investment is thought to be one of very few of its kind left anywhere.	North Yorkshire	1864–1882	Lead
Sirhowy Ironworks One of the earliest coke-fired ironworks in Gwent, it grew to five blast furnaces before iron smelting ended in 1882.	Blaenau Gwent	1778–1882	Iron
Sisters Pit, Garforth Named for the two Gascoigne sisters, this Garforth pit was flooded through its shaft tubbing in 1873 and 1883 and worked until 1922.	West Yorkshire	1843–1922	Coal
Siston Hill Colliery An early Bristol-coalfield pit, recorded in an accident report of 1804, whose 1889 sale prospectus describes a Boulton and Watt winding engine able to raise 700 to 800 tons a day.	South Gloucestershire	c.1790–1876 (abandonment plan)	Coal
Six Bells Colliery The worst British colliery disaster since the war, and the 20-metre miner that now stands where the shafts were	Blaenau Gwent	From 1892–1988	Coal
Skellyton Colliery A Larkhall colliery where a junior Scottish Cup winner was killed at the coal face in 1915, and an explosion killed both the manager and the fireman in 1937.	South Lanarkshire	By 1864–1951	Coal, Fireclay
Skelton Park Pit Very little survives of Cleveland's ironstone industry as a whole -- Skelton Park is the exception, preserved almost by accident into the best physical record of how the whole district's mines actually worked.	North Yorkshire	1870–1938	Iron
Skerrington Colliery A Hurlford colliery where an 1854 firedamp explosion blew down the shaft partition and buried four men at the pit bottom.	East Ayrshire	By 1854–1908	Coal
Skye Marble Quarry Britain's only true marble deposit, served historically by its own narrow-gauge railway to Broadford pier.	Highland	At least 1703–1907-13	Marble
Slack, Mount Pleasant and Barmasters Grove Lead Mines An 1882 probe of the mine's New Shaft found water at 222 feet, prompting a planned 800-yard sough extension that was started but never finished for lack of funds.	Derbyshire	from Documented from 1541	Lead
Slaley Sough Kept dry by an overlying layer of volcanic toadstone rather than by good drainage, and driven far beyond any useful ore -- possibly by investors who, as one historian put it, 'had more money than sense'.	Derbyshire	c.1740–1854-59	Lead
Slapewath Ironstone Mine Thomas Charlton built rows of houses for his men beside the mine, and the village has been called Charltons ever since — though the mining also undermined one of the rows badly enough that it had to come down.	North Yorkshire	1864–1906	Ironstone
Sled Shoe Colliery Forty pits on Blakey Ridge whose soft mucky lime coal the farmers would not buy unless there was none else.	North Yorkshire	By 1768–1796	Coal
Slei Gill Mine Flash floods in 2019 tore through the gill twice in one year, first exposing previously-unrecorded mine workings and then burying them again before they could be fully documented.	North Yorkshire	Before 1066–late 19th century	Lead
Slitherstone and Linacre Lead Mines Worked to 110 fathoms (202m) using nothing more than horse-gin haulage and manpower -- at a depth where a Derbyshire mine would usually have turned to steam.	Derbyshire	from Documented from mid-18th century	Lead
Slitt Mine A well-documented Weardale lead mine with surviving surface remains.	County Durham	Early 1700s–1878	Lead
Smallcleugh Mine A major Nenthead lead mine best remembered for the Ballroom Flat, a huge underground ore chamber where the local Masonic Lodge dined 28 guests in 1901.	Cumbria	c.1770–c.1900	Lead, Zinc
Smarts Quarry A bedding surface covered in star-shaped feeding traces left by burrowing bivalves, unique in the Namurian grits of South Wales.	Carmarthenshire	ended by 1987	Sandstone
Smeaton Colliery Six surface mines driven, two used; its 1953 washery served seven other collieries.	Midlothian	From 1903–1978	Coal
Smelt Colliery A day-level into Brymbo hill that opened in 1790, ended its life raising fireclay for the brickworks, and outlasted every other mine around it by nearly thirty years.	Wrexham	1790–1967	Coal, Fireclay
Smithy Wood Colliery Its coal came out on a cable belt in an incline nearly a mile and a half long, and an aerial ropeway linked it to two other pits of the same company.	South Yorkshire	1890–1986	Coal
Snaefell Mine The site of the Isle of Man's worst mining disaster in 1897 (20 dead) — and of a pumping waterwheel that was shipped to Cornwall when the mine closed in 1908, then brought back to the Island in 2003, nearly a century later.	Isle of Man	1856–1908	Zinc, Lead, Silver
Snailbeach Mine Once one of the richest lead mines in Europe	Shropshire	1781–1955	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar
Snake Mine A small, one-man-scale mine in its final decades that nonetheless survives as a well-preserved Scheduled Monument, excavated by the Peak District Mines Historical Society in 1967 and later explored underground with its last working operator, Mr Hodgson, acting as guide.	Derbyshire	possibly 17th century (timber rails found)–About 1920	Lead
Sneyd Colliery The Burslem pit where 57 men and boys died on New Year's Day 1942, in a coal-dust explosion touched off in a haulage drift they had only worked because of the war.	Staffordshire	Early 19th century–July 1962	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Snibston Colliery Sunk by George and Robert Stephenson; its railway to the Leicester and Swannington line was one of Britain's earliest	Leicestershire	1831-32 (sinking)–1983 (production)	Coal
Snowdown Colliery Called Dante's Inferno by its own workforce: 38°C, 80 per cent humidity, and 24 pints of water a shift.	Kent	From 1907 (sinking)–1987	Coal
Snydale Colliery A small Featherstone pit that began with a borehole striking gas, not coal.	West Yorkshire	From 1863–August 1965	Coal
Solsgirth Colliery Solsgirth set a European coal-output record in 1975 and was retired gracefully in 1990 — twelve years before the flood that finally ended deep coal mining in Scotland struck a part of the wider complex it had already stopped working.	Clackmannanshire	1965–January 1990	Coal
Solway Colliery Workington's last deep coal mine, sunk in 1937 to feed the steelworks' own coke ovens across the railway.	Cumbria	1937 (sinking begun)–1973	Coal
Soothill Wood Colliery A Batley colliery of 1873 to 1927 that employed over a thousand men in 1894 and had the first stretch of the Batley to Beeston railway built to serve it.	West Yorkshire	1873 (sinking)–September 1927	Coal
Sorn Mine A post-war Coal Board drift that was meant to last 25 years and worked for thirty.	East Ayrshire	1952 (production 1953)–April 1983	Coal
Sortridge Consols The Horrabridge copper mine whose 1855 engine was started under a triumphal arch of evergreens and whose dumps built an airfield.	Devon	1853 (reopened)–1871	Copper, Tin, Arsenic
South Bantaskine Colliery Coal run straight out of the hillside into canal boats without a shaft, then a garden laid over the workings, then the Coal Board knocking the house down to mine it again.	Falkirk	1828 (Wilson)–About 1860	Coal
South Birtley Colliery A Birtley landsale pit beside a brickworks, on ground riddled with eighteenth-century shafts called Lucky, Prosperous and Goodspeed.	Tyne and Wear	By 1865–8 February 1922	Coal
South Blair Colliery A small Harthill mine of the Virtuewell seam, opened in 1900, whose men in 1910 lived mostly in rented houses in Harthill and West Benhar.	North Lanarkshire	1900–1935	Coal
South Cambria Colliery A wet little drift mine that went through five owners in twenty years and still shows its stone portals in the Pentyrch woods.	Cardiff	1894–August 1914	Coal
South Caradon Mine South Caradon's origin story is a classic of Cornish mining lore: a syndicate of miners who couldn't persuade London investors to back them persevered for three years on their own before striking a lode so rich it turned their near-worthless shares into a fortune almost overnight.	Cornwall	1836–1885	Copper
South Crofty Last operating tin mine in Cornwall; repeated restart attempts since closure	Cornwall	1592–1998	Tin, Copper
South Derwent Colliery An Annfield Plain colliery whose seams, once thought fit only for the household, made its name as a gas coal.	County Durham	1860s–27 May 1933	Coal
South Duffryn Colliery A Plymouth-Ironworks colliery at Pentrebach, worked from 1862 for steam coal and kept its timber headframes to the end; production ceased in 1940.	Merthyr Tydfil	1862–November 1940	Coal
South Garesfield Colliery A Derwent valley drift colliery, also known as North Lintz, where three men died of carbon monoxide after shot firing in 1929.	Tyne and Wear	1865–February 1960	Coal, Fireclay
South Griffin Colliery A Blaina pit that ventilated Rose Heyworth for thirty years after its own coal stopped, and a 1935 film location.	Blaenau Gwent	1882 (sinking)–1921 (coal)	Coal
South Hetton Colliery Colonel Braddyll's deep east Durham pit, said to be the first in the county to wind coal in cages.	County Durham	1831 (sinking)–July 1982	Coal
South Hooe Mine South Hooe's silver assay of up to 180 ounces to the ton was exceptional even by the standards of the silver-rich Tamar Valley mines — richer, ton for ton, than the silver return most other British lead mines could ever hope to match.	Devon	13th century–1885	Lead, Silver
South Kirkby Colliery A rescue officer, Frank Dale, was one of the ten who died in 1935 — killed by a second explosion while helping recover the men lost in the first.	South Yorkshire	c. 1880-81–1988	Coal
South Leicester Colliery The Hugglescote pit that ended as Ellistown's ventilation shaft, its steam winders made redundant by a tunnel	Leicestershire	From January 1876–1983 (merged with Bagworth)	Coal
South Liberty Colliery The first pit sunk in the Bedminster coalfield and the last one left, 177 years later — pumped, it is said, by the same engine throughout	Bristol	1748–1925	Coal
South Medomsley Colliery A Dipton pit that made firebricks from the clay in its own coal seam and worked on until 1980.	County Durham	1861–July 1980	Coal, Fireclay
South Normanton Colliery The Winterbank pit, whose ground is now a designer outlet with a memorial to its 1937 dead.	Derbyshire	1893 (sinking)–1952 or 1957	Coal
South Pelaw Colliery A Chester-le-Street colliery worked from 1860 and re-sunk to the Busty in 1890, whose 1929 miners' welfare hall outlived the pit as the town's community centre.	County Durham	1860 (first shaft)–3 January 1964	Coal
South Polgooth Mine Its tall granite chimney did double duty -- serving both the beam engine house and the arsenic calciners beside it, an unusual shared arrangement rarely seen at other Cornish mines.	Cornwall	1593–1916	Tin, Copper, Arsenic
South Rhondda Colliery A Llanharan colliery making coal and firebricks whose closure let its water into the neighbouring Meiros pit.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1884–1927 or 1929	Coal, Fireclay
South Shildon Colliery A small Busty seam pit of 1929 that the National Coal Board enlarged and kept going until 1958.	County Durham	1929–August 1958	Coal
South Skelton Mine Known as the Van Pit: leased in 1865, it swallowed Boosbeck when the water beat it in 1887, worked on to 1954, and kept a pair of above-ground pony stables, rare in Cleveland, until well after closure.	North Yorkshire	1865 (lease)–1954	Ironstone
South Tamar Consols A rich silver-lead mine that the River Tamar drowned in five minutes in 1856, emptying Bere Alston of its miners.	Devon	1820–1856	Lead, Silver
South Tanfield Colliery A Joicey colliery whose winning of the Main Coal in 1837 was celebrated in the village.	County Durham	1837–31 March 1915	Coal, Fireclay
South Terras Mine Britain's only uranium and radium mine; supplied some of Marie Curie's earliest radium samples	Cornwall	c. 1870 (iron)–1930 (early 1930s, mine abandoned)	Uranium
South Tyne Colliery The colliery that made Haltwhistle a mining town, with its waggonway now a path up the Haltwhistle Burn.	Northumberland	Early 1850s–24 September 1931	Coal, Fireclay
South Wheal Frances A pioneer as much as a producer: the first Cornish mine to use wire rope permanently instead of hemp or chains, and the site of the county's first cast-iron underground flood dam.	Cornwall	1820s–December 1919	Tin, Copper
Southfield Colliery The Shotts Iron Company's big inter-war colliery at Shotts, with over 500 men at nationalisation.	North Lanarkshire	1920 (sinking)–May 1959	Coal
Southgate Colliery The pit that made Clowne a mining town, sunk 1,000 feet to the Top Hard and drowned out in 1929.	Derbyshire	1877–15 July 1929	Coal
Southrigg Colliery The Southrigg pits east of Harthill, begun by a bankrupt coal merchant in 1883 and drowned out by 1939, whose No. 3 made Greenrigg village and whose Netherton chimney was blown down after lightning.	West Lothian	1883–1939	Coal
Sovereign Colliery A deep Westleigh pit whose No. 3 shaft was wound by an old-fashioned flat-rope Haigh Foundry engine.	Greater Manchester	Late 1870s–2 December 1927	Coal
Spa Mine The Branch Mine, so called because it went in under the railway — which subsided in 1879 and nearly took a train with it.	North Yorkshire	1864–1886 (lease ran to 1904)	Ironstone
Spa Wood Mine Leased in 1853 and eleven years from lease to first stone, and when it came the ore was poor; the mine spent the next seventy years stopping and starting.	North Yorkshire	1853 (lease)–1930	Ironstone
Spearne Consols A tiny St Just tin mine that returned more than seven times its outlay in dividends within seventeen years.	Cornwall	1839–after 1873	Tin, Copper
Spearne Moor Mine A St Just tin mine paying its shareholders dividends in the 1850s, one of whose engines ended up in Wales.	Cornwall	by 1855	Tin, Copper
Speedwell Cavern Speedwell has now been open to visitors, in one form or another, for far longer than it was ever worked as a lead mine — its failed investment paying off, in the end, as entertainment rather than ore.	Derbyshire	1771–1790	Lead
Speedwell Colliery Worked for over two centuries — and so thoroughly redeveloped since that almost nothing of it can be seen today	Bristol	Worked from the early 18th century–1936	Coal
Speedwell Colliery, Giltbrook A ten-year pit that got its own railway: the Bennerley and Bulwell line was built past it in 1879.	Nottinghamshire	1875–1885	Coal
Speedwell Colliery, Staveley The Staveley pit where a nine-year-old door-trapper started work in 1859; he ended up president of the Derbyshire Miners' Association.	Derbyshire	1841–by 1896	Coal
Speedwell Newbridge Colliery It drew its air through an old shaft on the next gale, until the neighbour claimed the shaft and built a cover over the top.	Gloucestershire	1730s–1897	Coal
Spindle Point Colliery A Fletcher family sinking with a crooked shaft and an odd name, scene of an 1847 sinking explosion and an 1867 cage accident that drowned three boys in the sump.	Greater Manchester	1847 (sinking)–June 1928	Coal
Spindleside Colliery A Cleland pit nicknamed 'The Midge', where a snapping crane killed the manager and the electrical engineer in 1921.	North Lanarkshire	By 1865–1932 (last workings abandoned)	Coal, Ironstone
Spital Tongues Colliery The colliery that tunnelled under a city to reach its river, then failed within twenty years.	Tyne and Wear	1835 (sinking from 1833)–1858 (some accounts 1860)	Coal
Spring Quarry The largest underground factory in the world when it was built, put into a Bath stone quarry in a panic after Filton was bombed, and barely used.	Wiltshire	1875–1937	Freestone, Limestone
Springhill Colliery An Ayrshire pit where a hand-turned fan stood every weekend and gas was cleared for hours before work, until it exploded in 1917.	North Ayrshire	to after 1924	Coal
Springwell Colliery Forty-seven killed in 1833, most of them boys; the ventilation was rebuilt afterwards, and four years later a dropped safety lamp killed twenty-seven more.	Tyne and Wear	1826–1932	Coal
Springwell Pit, Dawley A Dawley pit where eight young men riding the winding chain died when it broke in 1872, two days after it was mended.	Shropshire	to About 1880	Coal, Ironstone
Sprinkle and Nash Colliery A shaft with no carriage and no guides, which killed three men and then the engineer four months later.	Pembrokeshire	1855–1865	Coal, Anthracite
St Anthony's Colliery An 18th-century Tyneside colliery whose Restoration Pit reached the Low Main at over 800 feet.	Tyne and Wear	Before 1769–1934 (seams abandoned)	Coal
St David's Colliery The deepest pit in South Wales in 1832, sunk through a flood by Cornishmen, and the reason Llanelli has a district called New Dock.	Carmarthenshire	1827 (sinking)–June 1908	Coal
St George's Colliery Tyldesley's 'Back o' th' Church' pit beside St George's Church, sunk in 1866 and kept as a ventilation shaft for twenty years after its last coal.	Greater Manchester	1866–1941 (coal)	Coal
St Helen's Colliery, Siddick A Cumberland coast colliery that made the county's first Coppée coke, lost 30 men to a firedamp explosion in 1888 and appears in the 1940 film The Stars Look Down.	Cumbria	1861–1 September 1966	Coal, Fireclay
St Hilda’s Colliery A pit in the middle of South Shields whose 1839 explosion made the case, in public, for ending the use of candles underground.	Tyne and Wear	1810–1940	Coal
St John's Colliery The Llynfi valley's last deep mine, and the first pit to test the post-strike closure appeal.	Bridgend	From 1908 (sinking)–22 November 1985	Coal
St Just Amalgamated Mines Its old tin ground now lies beneath a golf course between Nanpean farm and Cape Cornwall.	Cornwall	from At least 1907	Tin, Copper
St Lawrence Colliery A Newcastle pit sunk to the Low Main in eight months and an early user of cages and square tubs.	Tyne and Wear	from 1833	Coal
St Peter's Mine An Allendale lead vein found in 1902 by a drainage tunnel that ran into it	Northumberland	1902–1946	Lead, Fluorspar
St Thomas' Work Copper Mine Two Elizabethan opencuts in the Newlands crags, left exactly as the Mines Royal's German miners abandoned them four centuries ago.	Cumbria	Late 16th century–early 17th century	Copper
St. Helen's Colliery A Pease pit called into being by the Stockton and Darlington Railway.	County Durham	1830 (sinking)–31 December 1926	Coal
Stacksteads Colliery A fifty-man Rossendale pit that worked the Mountain mines for half a century and shut just before the Coal Board came.	Lancashire	By 1894–c. 1946	Coal
Stafford Colliery The Duke of Sutherland's colliery and ironworks at Great Fenton, whose pits bore its founders' names and whose Sutherland Pit was said to be the deepest in Britain.	Staffordshire	1873–January 1969	Coal, Ironstone
Stafford Colliery, Priorslee A Priorslee pit that took in Dark Lane's survivors up a 180-foot chain ladder after the 1884 explosion.	Shropshire	By 1884–after 1915	Coal, Ironstone
Stags Fell Quarries The most extensive stone workings in the Yorkshire Dales: flags and 'Hardraw Slates' won from short drifts in Stags Fell and sent out by rail from Hawes.	North Yorkshire	By 1854–1930s	Sandstone, Flagstone
Stagshaw Bank Colliery A tiny Tynedale landsale pit in the limestone coal that only became a Coal Board mine in 1953.	Northumberland	By 1882–4 October 1958	Coal
Staindrop Field House Drift A small Coal Board drift near Evenwood Gate where black damp killed two men in December 1958.	County Durham	1953–July 1967	Coal
Stancliffe Quarry A gritstone quarry good enough to pave Trafalgar Square, which spent forty years as an ornamental rock garden because its owner preferred it that way.	Derbyshire	Early 19th century–1963	Sandstone
Stanghow Mine Sunk 126 feet in 1871, and its owner went bust in 1892; Cochrane took the lease and the last stone came out in 1921, seven years before anyone made the abandonment official.	North Yorkshire	1871 (sinking)–1921	Ironstone
Stanhopeburn Mine The lead miners who drove the Shield Hurst Level found a fortune in fluorspar and walked straight past it -- it would be another forty years before anyone thought the mineral worth coming back for.	County Durham	1830–1982	Lead, Fluorspar
Stank Mine A Cornish-engined haematite mine at Barrow, sunk in 1871, that yielded some two and a half million tonnes of ore and notable haematite-tinted calcite specimens.	Cumbria	1871 (first shaft)–March 1901	Iron
Stanley Colliery, Crook A Pease colliery near Crook whose drift employed more men than its pit.	County Durham	Before 1828–November 1911	Coal, Fireclay
Stanley Cottage Drift A National Coal Board drift near Crook, opened in 1955 and closed in 1968 with the loss of 156 jobs.	County Durham	1955–17 May 1968	Coal
Stannington Church Colliery A pit sunk beside Stannington church in 1878, given up in 1905 and brought back with fifty men in the 1920s.	Northumberland	1878–1905	Coal, Fireclay
Stanrigg Colliery The pit where peat moss poured into the workings in 1918 and entombed nineteen men and boys, eleven of whom still lie there.	North Lanarkshire	to 1918	Coal
Starbotton Mines A scatter of small eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lead levels on Starbotton Cam, with its own short-lived smelt mill below.	North Yorkshire	Early 1700s–1877	Lead
Stargate Colliery The scene of the 1826 explosion that killed 38 men and boys, eleven of them Robsons; the pit reopened and worked until 1963.	Tyne and Wear	1800 (sinking begun)–29 June 1963	Coal
Starlaw Shale Pit The shale pit of an early West Lothian oil works, where a soot fire in the shaft killed eight.	West Lothian	from c. 1867	Oil Shale
Steetley Colliery Its own single shaft couldn't ventilate the mine properly — so the company solved the problem by sinking an entire second colliery fifteen years later, purely to give it somewhere for the air to go.	Nottinghamshire	1873-76–1983	Coal
Stepends Colliery The Plains pit whose washer served two mines and whose coal dust went into bricks stamped 'Stepends'.	North Lanarkshire	from 19th century (ironstone and coal)	Coal
Stiddle Hill Colliery A high-moorland pit near Bellingham at nearly 1,000 feet, whose stone chimney and blocked drift still stand.	Northumberland	c. 1873–August 1931	Coal
Stillingfleet Mine It raised no coal at all: every tonne went underground to Gascoigne Wood, and its best year came only after it swallowed North Selby's take.	North Yorkshire	January 1988–30 July 2004	Coal
Stirling Hill Quarry Worked largely by shackled convict labour marched daily from Peterhead Prison to hand-break red granite, carried to the breakwater works on Scotland's only state-owned convict railway.	Aberdeenshire	1815–1956	Granite
Stobswood Colliery A Northumberland pit that stayed small for forty years, then quadrupled and broke production records in the 1940s.	Northumberland	1875–1965	Coal
Stockdale Colliery A two-man drift near Thwaite that worked the Tan Hill Coal as the 'Stockdale Seam' until 1931.	North Yorkshire	1910–1931 (abandoned April 1932)	Coal
Stockfield Colliery A deep Oldham-coalfield pit that had to tub out its neighbours' flooded workings to reach the Royley Mine at over 300 metres.	Greater Manchester	c.1865–1914	Coal
Stocksbridge Colliery A steelworks' own colliery, driven into the hill above Samuel Fox's mill to feed its coke ovens.	South Yorkshire	1861–April 1948	Coal, Fireclay, Ganister
Stoke Prior Salt Works The largest salt works in Europe, closed not because the salt ran out but because taking more would have collapsed the ground	Worcestershire	c. 1828–1972	Salt
Stone Edge Smelt Mill Its tall square chimney, built around 1770, is thought to be the oldest surviving free-standing industrial chimney in England.	Derbyshire	Around 1770–by 1852	Lead
Stonechester Colliery A three-man drift near Hamsterley, abandoned in 1912 and reopened on the same seam by 1929.	County Durham	By 1908–after 1929	Coal
Stoneclough Colliery Kearsley's many-pitted colliery, whose manager died with three men trying to wave firedamp away with their waistcoats.	Greater Manchester	1854–1901	Coal
Stonecraigs Colliery A Newmains colliery that ended its life as the Coltness company's pumping and coal-washing pit.	North Lanarkshire	By 1863–1910	Coal, Fireclay
Stonecroft and Greyside Mine Its roofless Cornish engine house still stands in a field, the sockets for the engine beams visible in the wall like a face.	Northumberland	1851–1898	Lead, Barite
Stonehill Colliery One of the largest pits near Bolton until a wall of burning cannel a hundred yards long filled its workings with smoke in 1877 and killed eighteen of the men beyond it.	Greater Manchester	Before 1877–1888	Coal, Cannel Coal
Stonelaw Colliery Rutherglen's Stonelaw pits, where three men died together in the firedamp explosion of 1858.	South Lanarkshire	1854–after 1903	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Stonesfield Slate Mines The site of the first dinosaur ever formally named and described — Megalosaurus, by William Buckland in 1824 — recovered from a village slate mine dug for roofing stone, not for science.	Oxfordshire	From the Roman period–1911	Limestone
Stony Grooves Mine Nidderdale lead mines worked by Byland Abbey from the 13th century and finally beaten in 1889 by the cost of draining them, with the last recognisable dressing floors on the Greenhow field.	North Yorkshire	13th century–1889	Lead, Barite
Stopes Colliery The Fletchers' Little Lever pit, its founder a former canal-boat lad who became the village's first chairman.	Greater Manchester	1855–1908	Coal
Storey Lodge Colliery A Cockfield colliery that worked out its seams in 1904, then came back half a century later as a twelve-man drift.	County Durham	By 1833–1904	Coal
Stormont Main Colliery J. Grace and Partners' colliery at Wrekenton, Gateshead, where an explosion killed 27 in 1843.	Tyne and Wear	by 1831	Coal
Stormsdown Mine A retired stockbroker's private tin mine with the only Hathorn Davey differential engine in the West Country, which lost him £46,500 in six years.	Devon	Before 1840 (trial adits)–1909	Tin, Arsenic
Stotsfield Burn Mine A medieval settlement's name carried into the twentieth century by the lead and fluorspar mine that took it.	County Durham	From 1863–1966	Lead, Fluorspar
Stowe's Mine A tin mine on Stowe's Hill above Minions, later a section of Phoenix United, that had east Cornwall's only Newcomen engine in 1730.	Cornwall	Before 1730–1914	Tin
Strangeways Hall Colliery A big Hindley colliery that survived its owners' winding-up in Chancery in 1897 to raise 300,000 tons a year.	Greater Manchester	c. 1842–January 1937	Coal
Strawberry Bank Colliery A Liversedge pit in the Better Bed coal, worked for half a century by the Liversedge Coal Company.	West Yorkshire	1866–1918	Coal
Stray Park Mine The Camborne mine where Richard Trevithick started work at nineteen and later ran his high-pressure whim engine.	Cornwall	Late 1700s–1870	Copper, Tin
Strelley Colliery The pits at the top of Britain's first documented railway, whose bell-pit mounds are now a scheduled monument.	Nottinghamshire	Later 16th century–Later 17th century	Coal
Stromness Flagstone Quarries Stromness was quite literally built from its own doorstep — flagstone quarried at the Point of Ness, just along the shore.	Orkney	to Still active	Flagstone
Strontian Mines The type locality of strontianite, and the reason the element strontium bears this village's name	Highland	1725–1991	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite
Stublick Colliery A small upland colliery that raised thin coal for the Langley lead smelt mills, leaving the finest early 19th-century colliery buildings in its region.	Northumberland	By the 18th century–1926	Coal, Fireclay
Summersales Colliery Pemberton's last pit, a wet little colliery that worked on for twenty years after the main one closed.	Greater Manchester	1938–1966	Coal
Sun Hush Mine Named for the way the ore was found — a torrent of released water stripped the hillside bare to expose the vein.	North Yorkshire	from Working by 1888	Lead
Sundrum Colliery Two mines under one name, twenty years apart, on the same ground at Coylton.	South Ayrshire	By 1894–1933	Coal
Sunniside Colliery A hilltop Pease pit whose village of 1,500 emptied towards the coast after 1925.	County Durham	1867–1925 (reopened 1937-1965)	Coal
Surrender Mine Surrender's own 1841 accounts recorded not a single ton of slag among the 54 tons of lead it smelted that year — a small, precise number that speaks to just how efficiently a well-run 19th-century smelt mill could actually work.	North Yorkshire	before 1720–1880	Lead
Susanna Mine The richest and most technologically significant mine in the Leadhills lead-mining district, worked from around the 16th century to 1869.	South Lanarkshire	16th century–1869	Lead
Sutton Colliery The 'Bread and Herring Pit' of Sutton-in-Ashfield, now a forest park where carved miners remember the five dead of 1957.	Nottinghamshire	1874–25 August 1989	Coal
Sutton Heath Colliery A St Helens pit where 1,500 strikers planned to march in 1881 and a crowd of 500 stoned eighty police in 1893.	Merseyside	By 1858–1932	Coal
Sutton Manor Colliery Its spoil tip now carries Dream, a 20-metre sculpture of a girl's head commissioned by former miners	Merseyside	1906–1991	Coal
Sutty Row Colliery A farming family's hand-worked pit near Wark that was still raising coal with nine men in 1974.	Northumberland	By 1882–1970s	Coal, Fireclay
Swadlincote Colliery A Swadlincote pit of 1852 that set a national productivity record three years before it closed.	Derbyshire	1852–February 1965	Coal
Swaithe Main Colliery The Barnsley pit where 143 died in 1875, and whose survivors escaped through a neighbouring colliery's shaft.	South Yorkshire	1861–1894	Coal
Swalwell Garesfield Colliery A Swalwell pit where 124 miners were jailed in one batch during a 1909 dispute, backed by hundreds of villagers.	Tyne and Wear	1880s–August 1940	Coal, Fireclay
Swan Colliery Seashore levels at Baglan that opened in 1858, broke two companies in 1867 and were abandoned with the Park pit in 1887.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1858–1887	Coal
Swan Lane Colliery A Hindley Green colliery shut in 1893 and brought back for seventeen more years in 1910.	Greater Manchester	c. 1864–1893 (first closure)	Coal
Swanpool Mine A Falmouth silver-lead mine that ran beneath a coastal lagoon and was revived by a former New Zealand premier.	Cornwall	Early 1700s–1865	Lead, Silver
Swanwick Colliery A Derbyshire colliery whose shafts span 1833 to 1914, worked by the Palmer-Morewood family and closed in 1968 after 102 years.	Derbyshire	1833 (first shaft)–September 1968	Coal
Swelltor Quarry The corbels cut here for London Bridge in 1902 were never collected and still lie beside the line.	Devon	19th century–1938	Granite
Swinburne Quarry Thirty hectares of the Whin Sill, its plant standing idle by 2014 with the stone being carted to the quarry next door.	Northumberland	from 1940s	Whinstone
Swinden Quarry The quarry, the railway and the village each call it something different — Swinden to the quarrymen, Rylstone to the railway, and Cracoe to the shunter built for it in 1994.	North Yorkshire	1899–Still active	Limestone
Swindridge Muir Colliery A pit near Beith where boys of twelve and thirteen died at the coal face in the 1860s.	North Ayrshire	1854–1905	Coal, Ironstone
Swinhill Colliery A Larkhall colliery where two men won the Edward Medal unscrewing an air-pipe flange to reach a fireman caught by gas in 1913.	South Lanarkshire	By 1858–1942	Coal
Swinhope Mine Gold Fields' 1950s level broke into veins that poured water for two months and still found almost nothing.	Northumberland	1809–1960s	Lead, Zinc
Swinnergill Mine The mine and its smelt mill passed through the same Smith-Pomfret ownership dispute that produced Beldi Hill Mine's own House-of-Lords lawsuit, just across the same valley -- Swinnergill's operators, Lord Pomfret and Peter Denys, were the losing side of that thirty-year fight.	North Yorkshire	Late 1740s–mid-1830s	Lead
Swithland Slate Quarry Its slate roofed Charnwood and its headstones fill Midland churchyards — and the burrows of Cambrian animals are still visible on some of them.	Leicestershire	Roman–1887 (Great Pit	Slate
Sygun Copper Mine Reopened in 1986 as an underground show mine in the heart of Snowdonia	Gwynedd	18th century–1903	Copper
Sykes Mine Small lead workings on one of the Bowland anticlines whose limestone quarries are studied by geologists for their slump structures.	Lancashire	By 1767–by 1857	Lead, Barite