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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Waen Nantyglo Colliery A single level in a company that ran six of them along the same outcrop: when it closed in 1923 its men simply walked to the next one.	Blaenau Gwent	By 1896–1923	Coal
Wagstaff Colliery Worked the Six-Feet seam near its outcrop, its 1914 closure independently confirmed by two separate NMRS accounts.	Merthyr Tydfil	to June 1914	Coal
Walbottle Colliery A Tyneside colliery whose pits were named for the victors of Waterloo, and where 24 died in the Wellington Pit a year later.	Tyne and Wear	Before 1828–1937	Coal, Fireclay
Waldridge Colliery A pit wrecked by striking pitmen in its first winter and blown up on screen in its last.	County Durham	1 August 1831–April 1926	Coal
Waleswood Colliery A Rotherham-area colliery that outlived its coal as a pumping station and coke works, whose buildings and one of its locomotives both survive.	South Yorkshire	1860s–1948 (production)	Coal
Walker Colliery Opened in 1762 with eight horses on the winding gear, it had steam winding within seven years and a James Watt pumping engine by 1796.	Tyne and Wear	1762–1920	Coal
Walkham United A Walkham valley mine company that promised tin, copper and lead lodes and returned barely a ton of tin in its best two years.	Devon	1860–4 August 1882	Tin, Copper, Lead
Wallsend Colliery The Tyneside colliery whose High Main coal made 'Wallsend' a byword for quality, and which lost 102 men and boys in a single explosion in 1835.	Tyne and Wear	1778–1935	Coal
Wallshield Colliery A Greenhead pit worked by a handful of men on and off for more than eighty years, into the mid-1980s.	Northumberland	By 1900–1980s	Coal
Wallyford Colliery An East Lothian pit that grew sevenfold in sixteen years and shrank as fast.	East Lothian	1855–1930	Coal, Fireclay
Walsall Wood Colliery The men who sank Walsall Wood Colliery had never run a mine before in their lives -- yet inside three years they had driven the deepest shaft anywhere on the Cannock Chase coalfield.	Staffordshire	1874–1964	Coal
Walterclough Colliery The last pit east of Halifax: coal and fireclay for Brooke's brickworks, sent up to Hove Edge by aerial ropeway.	West Yorkshire	1888 (as generally stated)–18 February 1969	Coal, Fireclay
Walton Colliery A Wakefield pit that took two centuries to establish and fifteen years to reclaim into a nature reserve	West Yorkshire	1890 (shafts sunk)–3 December 1979	Coal
Wanlockhead Scotland's highest village; mining museum on site	Dumfries and Galloway	13th century–1934	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold
Wapping Mine A former 18th/19th-century lead mine and 1950s fluorspar mine at Matlock Bath, forming one end of the same ore deposit as the neighbouring Cumberland Cavern.	Derbyshire	Working by the 1750s (lead)–after 1956	Lead, Fluorspar
Wardley Colliery Its Miners' Hall of 1889 sat above two cottages for the checkweighmen; the pit closed in 1911, came back in 1959 and shut for good in 1974.	Tyne and Wear	1855–8 August 1974	Coal
Warren House Colliery Leased from an earl and worked with two neighbouring pits underground, one of them the scene of the Warren Vale explosion.	South Yorkshire	Early 19th century–c.1918	Coal
Warren Moor Mine A short-lived Kildale ironstone mine whose unused 1856-57 chimney -- built before mining even began -- is the only one of its kind left in the UK.	North Yorkshire	1866–1874	Iron
Warren Vale Colliery Twenty-four of the dead in 1851 were boys of sixteen or younger, killed when a roof fall drove gas onto their candles.	South Yorkshire	1840s (production from late 1850)–21 March 1943	Coal
Warrickhill Colliery A shaft explosion at Dreghorn that taught the inspector to call for ventilating openings in every sinking scaffold.	North Ayrshire	by 1856	Coal
Warrix Colliery Sunk in the middle of a strike, its first coal carted off and sold while pickets tried to stop the work.	North Ayrshire	1894–November 1950	Coal, Fireclay
Warsop Main Colliery Sunk to follow the Top Hard seam and given a village of its own; one of the most productive pits in the country in 1935, and losing £200,000 a week by 1989.	Nottinghamshire	1898–25 August 1989	Coal
Washington Colliery Britain's first shaft sunk through quicksand by freezing, at a colliery whose pits ran from A to I.	Tyne and Wear	By 1736–21 June 1968	Coal
Washington F Pit A Washington pit whose 1888 winding engine still stands in its engine house, kept as a museum since 1976.	Tyne and Wear	1777–21 June 1968	Coal
Washington Glebe Colliery The first shaft in Great Britain sunk by freezing the ground, through 120 feet of quicksand.	Tyne and Wear	1904–4 August 1972	Coal
Watcombe Clay Pits Torquay clay pits that founded the Watcombe terracotta pottery industry from 1869.	Devon	c. 1865–1962 (pottery closure)	Brick Clay
Water Haigh Colliery A Woodlesford pit sunk by Henry Briggs at the cost of six lives in a shaft collapse, worked for sixty years to 1970.	West Yorkshire	1908 (sinking)–1970	Coal
Water House Mine It raised lead and umber together — metal and pigment out of the same small mine.	Northumberland	from From 1882	Lead, Umber
Waterfall Mine Ten years or twenty, depending which record you believe — one company, one seam, and a closing date in 1901 that both sources do agree on.	North Yorkshire	1880 or 1892–1901	Ironstone
Watergate Colliery A 1920s Priestman pit near Gateshead that grew under the Coal Board to 920 men, now Watergate Forest Park, where the miners' brick steps to work still survive.	Tyne and Wear	1924–20 August 1964	Coal
Watergrove Mine Its 1794-95 engine house was the site of one of the earliest Newcomen atmospheric engines in the Peak District, later archaeologically excavated by the Peak District Mines Historical Society -- and its 1836-46 replacement engine involved the same engineer, William Wyatt, later responsible for the ill-fated pumping engine at the archive's own High Rake Mine.	Derbyshire	By 1746–February 1872	Lead
Waterhouses Colliery A Pease pit whose drifts fed more than 200 coke ovens and built the village around them.	County Durham	1859–August 1966	Coal
Waterland Colliery A Carluke colliery returned in the official 1880 list of collieries at work under William Hamilton and Co.	South Lanarkshire	—	Coal
Waterloo Main Colliery A Leeds colliery founded by the engineer of the Portland breakwater, whose locomotives ran its coal along the roadside into the city.	West Yorkshire	c. 1854–1968	Coal
Waterside Colliery Not a single shaft in its own right, but the operational hub -- washery, locomotive shed and railway network -- serving a whole district of numbered Dalmellington Iron Company coal and ironstone pits, today preserved as a heritage railway.	East Ayrshire	1848–1986	Coal, Iron
Wath Main Colliery The country park built on Wath Main's own reclaimed ground didn't even last as long as many of the miners who once worked there had spent underground — sold for housing barely a decade after it opened.	South Yorkshire	1873 (sinking)–1 January 1986 (merger)	Coal
Watnall Colliery A Barber, Walker colliery on the Watnall estate whose 1850s lessee lost everything in 1858 'except the shirt on his back'.	Nottinghamshire	1829 (lease)–December 1950	Coal
Waunllwyd Colliery An air door opened to clear gas and closed again by mistake sent firedamp to the naked lights at the stables in 1879, killing three men and sixteen horses.	Blaenau Gwent	1874-76 (sinking)–30 December 1963	Coal, Ironstone
Waunwyllt Level The small level that nobody expected anything of, and which turned out to be the first into the Four Foot steam seam — the coal that made Cardiff a coal port.	Merthyr Tydfil	1824–1870	Coal
Wearmouth Colliery The deepest mine in the world when it opened in 1835; its site is now Sunderland's Stadium of Light	Tyne and Wear	1826-1834 (sinking)–1993	Coal
Weather Cote Colliery A Bilsdale lime-coal pit worked by two or three men with eight corves and a pair of bellows, whose mounds still stand in the field.	North Yorkshire	December 1781–c. 1795	Coal
Wednesbury Oak Colliery A Black Country colliery worked to feed its own ironworks, coal and ironstone together.	West Midlands	By 1894–1908-1909	Coal, Ironstone
Weetslade Colliery Five men died in a 1951 firedamp explosion whose recovery took nineteen months, stalled by flooding and an unprecedented build-up of hydrogen from submerged shuttle-car batteries.	Tyne and Wear	1903–10 September 1966	Coal
Weigfach Colliery Two collieries of the same name at Fforestfach — the old one sold up in 1856, the new one struck rich in 1870 and killed eighteen in 1877.	Swansea	from early 1840s	Coal
Welbeck Colliery The colliery's own workforce transferred to Daw Mill near Coventry when Welbeck closed — a 140-mile daily commute for some, until Daw Mill itself closed after a serious fire just three years later.	Nottinghamshire	1912–2010	Coal
Welch Whittle Colliery A Lancashire pit whose shafts were sunk through 110 feet of quicksand to reach the Arley mine.	Lancashire	About 1855–December 1959	Coal
Weldon Stone Quarries In 1275 the quarryman Edward Geoffrey was paid 8s 2d for cutting 700 freestones here for Rockingham Castle — and the same beds are still being worked.	Northamptonshire	Medieval–Still active	Limestone
Wellesley Colliery Scotland's first pithead baths, and in 1938 the largest coal washery in Europe	Fife	1883-85–July 1967	Coal
Wellingborough Ironstone Quarries A brickmaker who took up iron ore as a sideline in 1874, found it paid better than bricks, and had built his own blast furnace at the end of the tramway within ten years.	Northamptonshire	1874–1966	Ironstone, Limestone
Wellington Pit Built to look like a castle so it wouldn't spoil the view from Lord Lonsdale's grounds — and sealed in 1910 with 136 men still underground	Cumbria	1840–1933	Coal
Wellsgreen Colliery A Fife Coal Company pit in the Dysart Main, the thickest seam in Fife, now under a golf driving range.	Fife	1884-1890 (sinking)–April 1959	Coal
Wellshot Colliery The Cambuslang colliery whose fireclay became bricks stamped 'Wellshot', 30,000 a day by 1899.	South Lanarkshire	1873–1905	Coal, Fireclay
Wellsways Colliery Twelve dropped 756 feet in 1839 when the rope broke; the inquest found it had been cut.	Somerset	By 1839–1896	Coal
Welton Wold Quarry The chalk that underlies much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire is named after this quarry, which is the section it is defined against.	East Riding of Yorkshire	By 1922–Still active	Chalk
Wembley Ironstone Quarry Ore from this pit fed the same Teesside furnaces that produced the steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge -- a very long supply chain from a Northamptonshire hillside.	Northamptonshire	1924–early 1940s	Iron
Wendron Consols The mine whose dressing floors and old Wheal Roots workings became the Poldark Mine attraction.	Cornwall	1851–1869	Tin, Copper
Wensley Quarry A Wensleydale quarry that once sent limestone by train to the Teesside steelworks.	North Yorkshire	1947–Still active	Limestone
Wentworth Silkstone Colliery A drift mine that kept driving into fresh seams for sixty-seven years until the Whinmoor ran out.	South Yorkshire	1856–1978	Coal
Wenvoe Iron Mine Glamorgan's only iron mine of any consequence outside the Llanharry belt — forgotten until a limestone quarry broke into its workings in 1979.	Vale of Glamorgan	Working by 1859–1919	Iron
Wenvoe Quarry Its stone built Barry Docks; a fall of it killed three men in a single August afternoon in 1889.	Vale of Glamorgan	1880s–2023 (an earlier phase ended by 1915)	Limestone
Werfa Colliery John Nixon's first pit above Aberdare, which sent the first boat-load of Aberdare steam coal to Cardiff and raised it by water balance.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1835–1908 or March 1909	Coal
Wern Colliery, Cwmafan Opened in 1811; four men died together when a naked candle ignited firedamp here in December 1844.	Neath Port Talbot	from 1811	Coal
Wernbwll Colliery Opened in 1893 near Penclawdd on the north Gower coast, later working the Penlan and Penclawdd drifts with about 150 men.	Swansea	1893–September 1937	Coal
Wernffraith Colliery An eighteenth-century colliery near Neath Abbey where firedamp killed its owner in 1758 and seventeen miners in 1770.	Neath Port Talbot	from mid 18th century	Coal
Wernlas Colliery A three-man level of 1902 that grew to 160 men under the Plymouth and Llewellyn combines before closing in the depression.	Merthyr Tydfil	1902–1935	Coal
Wernos Colliery Closed in 1965 while still getting more profitable, not less — its workers were simply moved on to Cynheidre instead.	Carmarthenshire	By 1865 (early working)–6 November 1965	Coal
Werntarw Colliery The Coal Board's plan to move 87 of its men to Llanharan in 1951 brought 15,000 miners out on strike, the coalfield's worst disruption since nationalisation.	Bridgend	1900–28 August 1964	Coal
West Auckland Colliery The Backhouse pit of 1838 that grew West Auckland, worked again as a drift until 1967.	County Durham	1838–July 1967	Coal
West Bitchburn Colliery A Snowdon family pit whose Brockwell seam lay barely 108 feet below the Beechburn valley.	County Durham	1860s–12 April 1926	Coal
West Cannock Colliery A single company sank five separate pits here over 45 years, and the very last of them -- No. 5 -- ended up outliving the first four combined by a wider margin than the gap between when they'd all opened.	Staffordshire	1869–1982	Coal
West Caradon Mine For a decade the rival of its famous neighbour South Caradon, yet now little more than tips and a single stack.	Cornwall	1837 (trials)–1874	Copper
West Chiverton Mine One of Cornwall's two greatest 19th-century lead mines, producing around 45,800 tons of lead ore and over 1.24 million ounces of silver between 1859 and 1886, with an unusually fine surviving engine house at Batter's Shaft.	Cornwall	1846–1886	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver
West Cramlington Colliery A Cramlington colliery worked for a century, 1838 to 1938, where a call to stop the trains in 1926 led to the derailing of the Flying Scotsman.	Northumberland	16 May 1838–30 August 1938	Coal, Fireclay
West Crinnis Mine A Cornish copper mine run from an office in Birmingham, whose levels are now under the bungalows of Regents Close.	Cornwall	1855–1859	Copper, Lead, Silver, Pyrite
West Denton Colliery A Tyneside colliery with a pit sunk in 1733, still working with forty men in the 1920s.	Tyne and Wear	1733–1924	Coal
West Godolphin Mine A granite engine house on the hill west of Godolphin, the last standing piece of a tin mine abandoned in 1889.	Cornwall	By the late 1860s–1889	Tin
West Hallam Colliery The ironworks left a slag heap so large that breaking it up for road stone kept a plant and a railway siding busy for nineteen years.	Derbyshire	1795–About 1930	Coal, Pyrite
West Holywell Colliery The older of the two Holywell collieries near Seaton Delaval, a pit hamlet with a chapel and railway station whose worked-out heap was later planted with potatoes.	Tyne and Wear	By 1828–1861	Coal
West Hunwick Colliery A Hunwick pit that firebrick makers kept working for its Busty coal and fireclay into the 1930s.	County Durham	By 1873–1930s	Coal
West Mine Its cavernous, cathedral-like entrance stope -- with galleries high in the roof and passages opening onto sheer drops -- made it the most notorious of all the Alderley Edge mines for accidents, some of them fatal.	Cheshire	Possibly pre-1857–1923	Copper
West Moor Colliery The pit where George Stephenson was engine-wright: he built Blücher in 1814 in the workshop behind his cottage here, and the sundial he and his son made in 1816 is still over the door.	Tyne and Wear	Before 1806–by 1900	Coal
West Pelton Colliery A Joicey pit of three shafts whose Hutton seam lay only 350 feet down.	County Durham	1858–19 March 1921	Coal, Fireclay
West Pitcorthie Shale Mines The easternmost working of true oil shale in Scotland — and the source of the first cargo of iron ore ever shipped out of Anstruther harbour.	Fife	from 1866	Oil Shale, Ironstone
West Rigg Opencast A rare surface exposure of the North Pennine Orefield's Slitt Vein: 19th-century ironstone quarrying was worked around the vein rather than through it, leaving it standing today as a vertical 'rib' running down the centre of the quarry.	County Durham	Late 19th century–1968	Iron, Lead
West Sharp Tor Mine A Duchy copper mine in the granite under Sharp Tor that turned up in E. V. Thompson's Retallick novels.	Cornwall	from 1850	Copper
West Shieldrow Colliery A Stanley colliery that worked eleven seams for coking and gas coal and employed over 400 before closing in 1934.	County Durham	By 1878–10 December 1934	Coal
West Sleekburn Colliery A modest Bedlington pit that employed nearly a thousand in the 1920s, now marked only by a vent pipe.	Northumberland	1859–1962	Coal
West Stanley Colliery A deputy led thirty-four men through the dark, lost seven at the shaft, and sang the rest through the wait — twenty-six came out alive	County Durham	1832–1936	Coal
West Stonesdale Mine Its engine house held a genuinely rare hydraulic engine -- powered by water pressure rather than steam -- doing triple duty on winding, pumping and ventilation, at a time when such engines were still a novelty in the north of England.	North Yorkshire	From 1850–1861	Lead
West Thornley Colliery A shallow Tow Law pit that outlived its ironworks by more than eighty years.	County Durham	By 1854–6 November 1965	Coal
West Tolgus Mine A Redruth copper mine that changed its name four times across a century and a half of opening, failing and reopening, before water finished it in 1884.	Cornwall	By the 1720s–February 1884	Copper
West Wheal Frances One of the three mines that formed Basset Mines in 1896, working five tin and copper lodes 95 fathoms down by 1856.	Cornwall	1819–1896 (merged into Basset Mines)	Tin, Copper
West Wheal Seton A copper mine whose 1870s accounts show who owned and supplied a working Cornish mine through the slump.	Cornwall	1844–1891	Copper, Tin
Westburn Colliery A Cambuslang pit where pumping out a flood released the gas that killed a roadsman in 1903.	South Lanarkshire	By 1886–February 1905	Coal, Fireclay
Westbury Brook Ironstone Mine A Forest of Dean mine sunk to feed the Dowlais ironworks, which produced nearly a million tons of ore.	Forest of Dean	Late 1830s–1893	Iron
Westbury Ironstone Quarry A Wiltshire ironstone quarry whose flooded pits are still known locally as 'the mineholes', now protected as a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.	Wiltshire	1840s–1933	Iron
Westcott Mine Its 1750s partners were a surgeon, a brazier and an apothecary from Shrewsbury, and a century later a Cornish engine was put up to find copper that was never there.	Shropshire	from 1753	Copper, Barite
Westdown Mine A luckless Walkham valley mine whose machinery was carried off by a rival and whose captain was buried alive.	Devon	1847–1858	Tin, Copper
Westernmoor Colliery A shallow Neath slant where four were drowned in 1878 by water from pits worked out a hundred years before.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1868–1888	Coal
Westerton Colliery Worked as one plant with Binchester, the two fed 395 coke ovens whose waste gas fired the boilers.	County Durham	1840 (sinking)–October 1961	Coal
Westfield Colliery A small Ossett pit whose working through the 1893 strike set off the Chidswell riot.	West Yorkshire	1863–1908	Coal
Westfield Opencast Britain's largest and longest-lived opencast coal mine, which left Europe's largest bituminous-coal pit lake.	Fife	1955–1998 (final extraction from 2008)	Coal
Westholme Colliery A Teesdale pit that lasted only four years, though its miners' cottages at South Cleatlam still stand.	County Durham	1910 (sinking)–22 August 1914	Coal
Westleigh Colliery A Leigh pit where, in 1896, an engine started the wrong way and a cage of eight fell 370 yards.	Greater Manchester	by 1862	Coal
Westminster Colliery A Moss valley colliery reached over the ridge by two rope-worked inclines and a tunnel, wound up in 1922 and closed in 1925.	Wrexham	By 1860–February 1925	Coal
Westoe Colliery South Shields's last working colliery, whose outdoor toilet inspired the famous 1972 painting 'The Westoe Netty' and whose workers' brass band was the first colliery band to win the British Open.	County Durham	1909 (producing colliery from 1940)–May 1993	Coal
Westrigg Colliery Blackridge's first colliery, whose site is now the village's railway station.	North Lanarkshire	c. 1886–1930	Coal
Westthorpe Colliery One of the last new north Derbyshire sinkings, by a family firm that housed its men.	Derbyshire	From 1923 (sinking)–1984	Coal
Westwell Colliery The second colliery in the hamlet of Plumbley, sunk in 1876 and gone by 1901 while its neighbour pumped on to 1914.	South Yorkshire	1876–by 1901	Coal
Westwood Colliery A Newton Chambers pit where candles were allowed beside a gassy goaf until six died in 1862.	South Yorkshire	—	Coal
Westwood No. 1 and 2 Pits The last Scottish oil-shale pit to close, and the industry's showcase between the wars.	West Lothian	1915–1962	Oil Shale
Wet Earth Colliery Wet Earth Colliery gave James Brindley his start: the young millwright who solved this pit's flooding problem in the 1750s went on, within a decade, to become the driving engineering force behind the Bridgewater Canal and the birth of Britain's canal network.	Greater Manchester	1740s–1928	Coal
Wetshaw Mine Named for a cluster of workings on Reeth High Moor -- Wetshaw Level, Wetshaw High Whim and the Black Whim shaft -- whose surviving trackways were specifically studied by local archaeologists using satellite and aerial imagery to establish how ore was once moved across the site.	North Yorkshire	—	Lead
Wham Colliery A Butterknowle pit beside the Malt Shovel inn, abandoned three times before its last three men stopped in 1931.	County Durham	By 1859–29 August 1931	Coal, Fireclay
Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery R. Craik & Co.'s colliery at Smithies, Barnsley, joined to East Gawber, where 20 died in 1883.	South Yorkshire	c. 1878–1910	Coal
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Restarting the ventilation fan with a faulty coal-cutter running cost twelve lives and a verdict of 'very negligent' management.	South Yorkshire	from 1854	Coal
Wharncliffe Wood Ganister Mines A rock nobody outside Yorkshire had heard of that, once someone worked out furnaces loved it, became a whole local industry's namesake.	South Yorkshire	1860s–c. 1945	Ganister
Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery A single spark from an uncovered loader motor was the likeliest cause of South Yorkshire's worst modern mining disaster.	South Yorkshire	1871–1965 or 1966	Coal
Wharton Hall Colliery A Bridgewater Trustees pit that wound coal for barely fifty years and then spent nearly four decades as a pumping station guarding its neighbours.	Greater Manchester	c.1873–December 1927 (coal winding)	Coal
Whatley Quarry Deliberately planned to be invisible from every public road, and cut so deep into the Mendip plateau that its stone reaches London by train because the south east has none of its own.	Somerset	1939–Still active	Limestone
Whaw Mine The hillsides around the hamlet are still scarred by hushes -- artificial floods released to strip away topsoil and expose the ore beneath -- while a Roman lead 'pig' stamped with the Emperor Hadrian's name has been found locally, alongside a 1285 record of the Lord's mine in the dale turning a profit of £4.	North Yorkshire	At least the medieval period–by 1912	Lead
Wheal Agar An Illogan copper and tin mine where a corroded capstan rope broke under a cage of thirteen men in 1883, killing twelve of them.	Cornwall	by 1883	Copper, Tin, Arsenic
Wheal Alfred Once one of Cornwall's richest copper producers, raising some 175,000 tons of copper ore between 1801 and 1864 -- today remembered by geologists chiefly for its fine mimetite and pyromorphite mineral specimens, as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and Geological Conservation Review site.	Cornwall	by 1801	Copper, Tin
Wheal Andrew Also recorded under the name Friendship Mines -- a coincidental name shared with, but entirely unrelated to, the well-known Wheal Friendship already documented on this archive at Mary Tavy in Devon, a common mine name reused independently in both counties.	Cornwall	After 1780–around 1870	Copper
Wheal Baddon Rich enough in lead and silver in the mid-19th century to give its name to the hamlet of Wheal Baddon that still stands over the site.	Cornwall	1842–1872	Lead, Tin, Silver, Zinc
Wheal Basset (Basset Mines) The stone used to build Lyle's Shaft's grand 1879-80 pumping engine house came from demolishing four older, worn-out engine houses on the same sett — one generation of Cornish engineering quite literally built from the bones of the last.	Cornwall	From 1815–1918	Tin, Copper
Wheal Bellan A St Just tin mine whose 1914 mill ran on electricity from gas made on site, and whose dressing floors still survive in the Cot valley.	Cornwall	By 1717–1919	Tin
Wheal Betsy The only standing engine house left on Dartmoor, saved from Army demolition plans in 1954	Devon	1740–1877	Lead, Copper, Arsenic, Silver, Zinc
Wheal Brothers A rare true silver mine, where new owners found £6,000 of silver ore the old miners had left in the stopes.	Cornwall	1810–after 1874	Silver, Lead
Wheal Buller Wheal Buller's 1856 dividend record captures just how quickly Cornish mining fortunes could turn — the same mine that paid out more than any other in the county that year had, within two decades, run out of ground worth working at all.	Cornwall	worked from 1819–1875	Copper, Tin
Wheal Busy The first Boulton and Watt engine in Cornwall pumped here — and the mine outlived its copper by half a century on arsenic nobody had wanted	Cornwall	16th century (earliest working)–1924	Copper, Tin, Arsenic
Wheal Clifford Struck the United Mines group's notorious 'Hot Lode', where water at around 100 degrees Fahrenheit poured continually over the miners working it, cutting productivity so badly that men could barely manage an hour's work in a day.	Cornwall	By 1835–1861	Copper, Tin
Wheal Coates Iconic ruined engine house on the St Agnes cliffs	Cornwall	1802–1914	Tin, Copper
Wheal Cock The 1895 collapse of an underground dam here flooded the mine's richer ground faster than its engines could pump it clear.	Cornwall	1778 (reopened)–1914	Tin, Copper
Wheal Crebor A copper mine struck by accident in the Tavistock Canal's tunnel cutting and worked by canal water power, rich for a few years after 1811.	Devon	About 1803–1902	Copper, Tin, Iron
Wheal Cunning An old tin mine whose 1872 reopening drew Boswedden, Wheal Castle and Boscean into Wheal Cunning United -- an amalgamation that lasted barely two years.	Cornwall	1830–1876	Tin
Wheal Cupboard The third and final of the three founding mines of United Mines -- alongside the already-published Ale and Cakes Mine and Poldory -- whose combined workings, once rebuilt by the engineer John Taylor in the 1820s, struck what was at the time the richest copper lode in the world.	Cornwall	Before 1780–around 1870	Copper
Wheal Cupid A short-lived 1850s copper venture near Redruth whose company raised over £11,700, with plans closed in 1860.	Cornwall	1850–1860	Copper
Wheal Damsel One of a trio of Damsel-named setts worked together through the 19th century; the mine's name now survives only as a residential road built over part of the old ground.	Cornwall	1795–1872	Copper
Wheal Drea Its own long-flooded old workings were the ones neighbouring miners broke into on 10 January 1893, causing the already-published Wheal Owles flooding disaster that killed nineteen men and a boy.	Cornwall	1790s–1884	Tin, Copper
Wheal Edward Wheal Edward's real claim to fame came long after it stopped being a copper and tin mine: pitchblende from its lodes was sent to Marie Curie, and in the late 1950s the Atomic Energy Authority came back to extract genuine uranium ore from the same cliff lode.	Cornwall	From 1821–1893	Copper, Tin, Uranium
Wheal Eliza An unsuccessful Exmoor copper and iron trial remembered today less for its ore than for the notorious 1858 murder whose victim was found in its flooded shaft.	Somerset	From 1845–1858	Copper, Iron
Wheal Ellen The only Cornish engine house with a castellated chimney, built in 1866 for a copper mine's reopening whose engine never arrived.	Cornwall	c. 1826–1862 (reworking tried 1866 and 1907)	Copper, Lead, Zinc
Wheal Emily A three-year copper venture in the Gwithian cliffs that ended owing nearly eight times what it made in its last months.	Cornwall	1857 (reopened)–April 1860	Copper, Lead, Zinc
Wheal Enys A Porkellis tin mine whose engine house went to build the village chapel.	Cornwall	By 1815–c. 1860	Tin
Wheal Fanny One of the five original setts -- alongside Wheal Maria, Wheal Anna Maria, Wheal Josiah and Wheal Emma -- that together made up the already-published Devon Great Consols, once the world's largest producer of arsenic.	Devon	1845–1903	Arsenic, Copper
Wheal Fortune Part of the disused mine is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, designated in 1991 for its geological interest, and a Geological Conservation Review site of national importance: its opencast exposes two distinct generations of tin mineralisation in one location, an unusually clear and instructive example for studying granite-related hydrothermal tin deposits in southwest England.	Cornwall	1855–1912	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Zinc
Wheal Frementor A worked-out vertical tin deposit here left a 'gunnis' -- an open void some 4 metres wide, 70 metres deep and 200 metres long -- now fenced off as a striking, if hazardous, feature of the site.	Devon	c.1915–1929	Tin, Tungsten
Wheal Friendly A small St Agnes mine said in 1896 to be about to be wound up, which lasted into the 1920s by working with Wheal Kitty and Polberro as one concern.	Cornwall	c. 1860–by 1930	Tin, Copper
Wheal Friendship Wheal Friendship is remembered less for its copper, which most Devon mines also produced, than for the young manager it made: John Taylor left Mary Tavy to become one of the most sought-after mining engineers in Britain, called in wherever a mine's owners needed the water-power and drainage expertise he first developed here.	Devon	late 18th century–1950s	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Lead
Wheal Glynn A Crimean War 'bubble mine' that lasted five years and left behind the most decorative chimney in East Cornwall.	Cornwall	1854–1859	Lead, Silver
Wheal Gorland A Cornish copper mine whose lasting fame rests on its oxidised upper workings, the type locality for five secondary copper minerals including liroconite and cornwallite.	Cornwall	1792–1864	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten
Wheal Grambler The only mine engine house left standing in the parish of St Day, and a compact example of Cornwall's amalgamation era: three small, separately worked setts merged in 1834 into St Aubyn United Mines, which then worked on quietly for another sixty years.	Cornwall	By 1792–1893	Copper, Tin, Fluorspar
Wheal Grenville Wheal Grenville spent its first six years losing money badly enough to be sold off — and then went on to become one of the Camborne district's most consistently profitable tin mines for the next four decades, a turnaround owed entirely to going deeper and finding the Great Flat Lode's tin beneath the copper that had first disappointed everyone.	Cornwall	1820s–1920	Tin, Copper
Wheal Grey Mine A Tregonning Hill tin mine recorded in 1715, whose surviving engine house pumped a china clay pit with an engine first built for Polgooth.	Cornwall	By 1715–1873	Tin, China Clay
Wheal Harmony Formed in 1816-17 from the amalgamation of Treleigh Wood Mine with several smaller workings near Redruth, exploiting the eastern extension of the Wheal Tolgus main lode.	Cornwall	From 1760s–1879 (as Treleigh Wood Mine)	Copper, Tin, Tungsten
Wheal Henry A poor Gwennap-edge mine whose small killas engine house may be among the oldest still standing in Cornwall.	Cornwall	1734 (first record)–1860s (probably)	Copper, Tin
Wheal Hermon A map dated 1560 already shows this mine as an established working called 'Hermeno' -- meaning tin was already being pulled out of the Cot Valley here before Elizabeth I had even been crowned.	Cornwall	1560–1915 (last production)	Tin
Wheal Jane Site of the major 1992 mine-water pollution incident	Cornwall	1861–1991	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Wheal Jenkin A Caradon tin mine rebuilt in the 1880s with engines moved from its larger neighbour, and closed within ten years.	Cornwall	1824–1890	Tin
Wheal Jennings The only mine in an otherwise copper-dominated parish worked purely for tin, and the only one still being tried on any scale as late as the early 20th century.	Cornwall	At least the 19th century–20th century	Tin
Wheal Jewell The large 'S'-shaped reservoir that now dominates the site was built directly over the mine's old gerts (open-cast workings) in 1936, destroying most of the surviving remains, to serve as a header tank for the Mary Tavy hydroelectric scheme.	Devon	Late 18th century–around 1924	Tin, Arsenic
Wheal Kine Diamond tin -- ore pure enough to go straight to the smelter with no dressing at all -- was rare enough that Polberro's version of it became the thing the whole sett was known for.	Cornwall	1837–1895	Tin, Copper
Wheal Kitty The 65-inch engine that ended its days at Wheal Kitty in 1910 was already secondhand when it arrived — built in 1852 and first used at another mine entirely, it worked on at St Agnes for two more decades as the last beam engine the district would ever see.	Cornwall	From 1758–1930	Tin, Copper, Iron
Wheal Langford A Cornish silver mine whose pumping engine went to the East London Waterworks.	Cornwall	Before 1824–1856	Silver, Copper, Lead
Wheal Leisure Perranporth's richest copper mine, drowned when the rival it beat in court switched off the pumps.	Cornwall	ended by 1845	Copper
Wheal Lovell The Wendron tin mine managed in the early 1840s by Lydia Taylor, the only woman known to have run a mine in Cornwall.	Cornwall	By 1840–1875 (abandonment plan)	Tin
Wheal Lucy A tin mine named after the mineral owner's daughter, which spent over £5,000 to sell £1,202 of tin.	Cornwall	1871–1874	Tin
Wheal Luna A St Agnes tin working first named in a record of 1528.	Cornwall	by 1528	Tin
Wheal Lushington Fourteen small cliff mines grouped under one name, whose 1872 engine house never received its engine.	Cornwall	18th century–1927	Copper, Tin, Lead
Wheal Maid Wheal Maid's two very different lives — a profitable Georgian copper mine, then a late-20th-century tailings dump — have left it as one of the most scientifically studied contaminated mine sites in Britain, a real-world laboratory for how sulfidic mine waste weathers once nobody is managing it any more.	Cornwall	1782–1870s	Copper, Tin, Arsenic
Wheal Margaret A small Lelant tin mine that paid £17 a share in 1855 and went down 200 fathoms through granite.	Cornwall	1790–1877	Tin
Wheal Martyn China Clay Works Cornwall's china clay industry once supplied half the world's kaolin; this site is now a working Victorian clay-works museum	Cornwall	1820s–1931 (pits)	China Clay
Wheal Mary Ann A Menheniot silver-lead mine whose 1845 founding was settled by a Chancery suit before it raised any ore, later worked to 250 fathoms under Captain Peter Clymo.	Cornwall	1845–c. 1875	Lead, Silver, Fluorspar
Wheal Metal Home to the only large surviving engine house of the historic Wheal Vor mining group, once a tenth of Cornwall's entire tin output, moved there stone by stone from Wheal Vor's own Trelawney's Shaft.	Cornwall	15th century–1877	Tin, Arsenic
Wheal Owles Site of Cornwall's second-worst mining disaster after Levant — the 1893 flooding from the abandoned Wheal Drea, which killed twenty men and boys — and later a BBC Poldark filming location.	Cornwall	c. 1830–1893	Tin, Copper
Wheal Peevor Wheal Peevor's three engine houses, standing together exactly as they served three different jobs, make it one of the clearest places in Cornwall to see at a glance how a single mine's pumping, hauling and ore-crushing operations actually fitted together on the surface.	Cornwall	c. 1701–1950s	Tin, Copper, Tungsten
Wheal Pell By 1750 this ground was producing more tin than the local packhorses could actually carry away -- a genuine bottleneck of success rather than the usual mining-district story of scarcity.	Cornwall	1750–1895	Tin
Wheal Polmear A St Austell copper mine its own miners called 'bunchy', whose rich finds never lasted, yet which sold ore for nearly a century.	Cornwall	1814–1908	Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Pyrite
Wheal Pool A lead and silver mine beside the Loe Pool, which needed an adit through the cliffs at Loe Bar to keep the lake out.	Cornwall	16th century–1914	Lead, Tin, Silver
Wheal Prosper Wheal Prosper's engine house, framed against Mount's Bay from Rinsey Head, is one of the most photographed mining ruins on the Cornish coast — a striking survival from a mine that, ironically given its name, never actually turned a profit.	Cornwall	c. 1860–1866	Copper, Tin
Wheal Prudence A copper mine that sank a shaft on a sea stack, reached across a wooden bridge.	Cornwall	By 1812–1868	Copper
Wheal Pye Even in its final act, decades after most of Cornwall's tin industry had already given up, someone still thought this ground was worth one more try -- Polberro Tin Ltd's 1937-41 revival came fully 87 years after the mine's earliest documented working life.	Cornwall	c. 1837–1895	Tin
Wheal Regent Named for the Prince Regent in the rush that followed the Crinnis copper strike, and now under the bungalows of Regents Close.	Cornwall	1809–1855	Copper, Pyrite
Wheal Remfry A china clay pit whose 1960s expansion led its owner to demolish an entire nearby village, Retew, and rehouse its residents.	Cornwall	by 1960s	China Clay
Wheal Seton A Camborne copper mine that raised 113,000 tons of ore beside its better-documented neighbour West Wheal Seton.	Cornwall	—	Copper, Tin
Wheal Sidney A Dartmoor-edge tin mine whose arsenic-rich ore needed a calciner, with its 1862 engine chimney still standing.	Devon	1850 (modern working)–1865	Tin, Arsenic
Wheal Squire Raised over 20,000 tons of copper ore in less than four decades of working, as one of several mines absorbed into the United Mines group that John Taylor rebuilt into profitability in the 1820s.	Cornwall	1816–around 1870	Copper
Wheal Sterran The 1927 reopening found exactly the kind of fine tin ore that should have justified further work -- and was abandoned anyway, one of Cornish mining's small unfinished stories.	Cornwall	early 20th century–1927	Tin
Wheal Surprise A Whitchurch Down copper mine prompted by a copper-stained gatepost, sold for £50 after the bailiffs came and refloated under a new name.	Devon	About 1810–1856	Copper
Wheal Towan Its copper made Ralph Allen Daniell 'guinea a minute' Daniell, and in 1785 it had the first steam engine erected underground.	Cornwall	By 1756 (as Wheal Sound)–1837 (abandonment plan)	Copper, Tin
Wheal Treasury The mine where Richard Trevithick began work alongside his father, served by a James Watt engine in the 1790s.	Cornwall	By 1793–1870	Copper, Tin
Wheal Trelawny A Menheniot lead-boom mine that paid £9,880 in three years, marked today by a listed stack.	Cornwall	1840 or 1845–1902	Lead, Arsenic, Silver
Wheal Trewavas Wheal Trewavas is one of only a small number of Cornish mines whose workings genuinely extended out beneath the sea rather than merely running close to the shoreline — a fact underlined by the manner of its closure, when the sea broke through into a tunnel being prepared for the miners' own annual dinner.	Cornwall	by 1834–1846	Copper
Wheal Union Amalgamated at least four earlier mines under one name yet was never once profitable across three separate working attempts spanning 34 years.	Cornwall	1848–1882	Copper, Tin
Wheal Unity The Lizard's only serious mine, whose native copper included a sheet shown at the 1851 Great Exhibition.	Cornwall	1741 (first record)–by 1900	Copper
Wheal Unity Wood In 1897 its underground workings were leased to the Truro School of Mines specifically for the training of students -- an unusually direct link between a working Cornish mine and formal mining education.	Cornwall	By 1815–1927	Copper, Tin
Wheal Unity, Gwennap A Gwennap copper mine that cleared over £100,000 in six years once the Great County Adit reached it.	Cornwall	By 1792–1866	Copper
Wheal Uny Wheal Uny's paired engine houses, standing at right angles to each other above Redruth, are counted among the finest surviving groups of their kind anywhere in Cornwall — a rare case of both a mine's pumping and winding engine houses surviving together, built as a matched set.	Cornwall	worked from c. 1800–1893	Copper, Tin
Wheal Vlow A tin mine under the Perranporth dunes, reopened in the 1920s, when its old Cornish engine's pitwork was hauled from the shaft.	Cornwall	By 1864–1929	Tin
Wheal Vor Wheal Vor's tin wasn't what finally beat it: the mine closed in 1848 with rich ground still unworked, brought down instead by twenty years of its own owners fighting each other in court over who owned the rights to it.	Cornwall	From the 15th century–1911	Tin, Copper
Wheal Wrey A Tiddy valley silver-lead mine that yielded over 100,000 ounces of silver in about twenty years.	Cornwall	By 1855–1866	Lead, Silver
Wheatley Hill Colliery Six months after it opened, a heading broke into its neighbour's flooded workings — and the coroner's jury named three officials for manslaughter.	County Durham	1869–3 May 1968	Coal
Wheels Rake Wheelhouse Shaft Cavers spent years digging through the collapsed Shining Sough here before breaking through into the neighbouring Broadmeadow Mine's own workings.	Derbyshire	1756–c.1851	Lead
Wheldale Colliery Wheldale went out as it had operated for over a century: the last colliery in Yorkshire still using pit ponies in 1972, and ten years later the last in the whole of Britain to run a steam locomotive on its own sidings.	West Yorkshire	1868 (sinking)–October 1987	Coal
Wherry Mine A Georgian tin mine sunk into the sea bed off Penzance, worked from a turret and a trestle bridge until a ship smashed it.	Cornwall	c. 1778–1840	Tin
Whickham Colliery A small Whickham colliery of the Snowball family, raising coal and fireclay, swallowed up by Axwell Park in the 1890s.	Tyne and Wear	By 1855–1887 (Stone Coal abandoned)	Coal
Whinney Hill Colliery A pit of two hundred men that shared its manager, its company and its underground roadways with Moorfield, where 68 died in 1883.	Lancashire	by 1894	Coal
Whinney Hill Colliery, Cleator Moor The Cleator Moor pit where thirty died in 1848, after men took the tops off their safety lamps to light their pipes.	Cumbria	by 1848	Coal
Whinny Moor Colliery A small Naylor pit on the edge of Wakefield, run in the 1890s by the same manager as their larger Pildacre Colliery.	West Yorkshire	1869–June 1913	Coal
Whistleberry Colliery A Blantyre pit of thick coal and treacherous head coal, whose site became a brickworks.	South Lanarkshire	By 1900–27 May 1935	Coal, Ironstone
Whiston Colliery The Wigan and Whiston Coal Co.'s colliery near Prescot, worked 1855-1901, where seven died in 1878.	Merseyside	1855–1897 or 1901	Coal
Whitburn Colliery Its 1877 shaft was the first in British coal to be sunk by the Kind-Chaudron process — and the sea water that forced that choice eventually closed the pit.	Tyne and Wear	May 1879–1968	Coal
Whitby Jet Workings Jurassic fossil-wood gemstone mined along the coast, driven to a Victorian boom by royal mourning fashion	North Yorkshire	1840–1920	Jet
White Grit Mine White Grit's Roman pig of lead, stamped for the Emperor Hadrian, is a rare case of a British mine site with a genuinely datable ancient find rather than mere local tradition of Roman-period working.	Shropshire	1678–c. 1870	Lead
Whitebirk Colliery A Blackburn colliery once run by a co-operative society, whose clay works outlived its coal.	Lancashire	1870 (sinking)–12 June 1895	Coal, Fireclay
Whitecliff Ironworks A short-lived Forest of Dean blast furnace, financially ruinous but historically significant as the site of some of David Mushet's earliest steelmaking experiments.	Gloucestershire	1798-1801–by 1816 (production)	Iron
Whitehill Colliery Whitehill's real legacy isn't Scottish: the profits and experience Archibald Hood built here funded his move to the Rhondda Valley, where he became one of the founding figures of the South Wales coal industry his Midlothian miners never worked in.	Midlothian	From 1850–1961-62	Coal
Whitemoor Mine Sunk to 965 metres for a complex meant to last forty years, it produced for barely ten before faulting folded it into Riccall.	North Yorkshire	January 1988–May 1998	Coal
Whiteside Mine One of three mines on the Grinton How Vein that fed the best-preserved lead smelting site in the Dales.	North Yorkshire	from Working by 1888	Lead
Whitesike Mine Worked wholly by the London Lead Company and linked by tramway to the neighbouring Bentyfield mine; the two mines are protected together as a single Scheduled Monument.	Cumbria	By 1848–after 1882	Lead
Whiteworks Mine The bleak moorland around Whiteworks, next to Foxtor Mire, is widely thought to have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Grimpen Mire in The Hound of the Baskervilles.	Devon	1180–1914	Tin
Whitley Colliery A coastal pit that once fired the Cullercoats salt pans, and lost a man and five boys to a badly hooked corf.	Tyne and Wear	By the 1660s–c. 1880	Coal
Whitrigg Colliery The Lady of the Dales: three shafts, two surface mines and its own power station.	West Lothian	From about 1900–1972	Coal
Whitriggs Mine One of the oldest recorded Furness iron mines, mapped in 1725 and the first Furness venture of Henry Schneider.	Cumbria	by 1725	Iron
Whittle Colliery A drift mine that swallowed its neighbour: Shilbottle’s men walked to Whittle when their own pit shut.	Northumberland	1920–March 1987	Coal
Whittonstall Drift A Consett Iron Company drift that closed twice, in 1925 and the 1940s, and was revived by the National Coal Board until 1966.	Northumberland	1907–25 November 1966	Coal
Whitwell Colliery Sunk only to give its neighbour Steetley a second shaft for air, it ended up ventilating Steetley and outliving it by two decades.	Derbyshire	1890 (sinking)–27 June 1986	Coal
Whitwick Colliery The colliery that gave its name to the town of Coalville, and the site of Leicestershire's worst-ever mining disaster: a 1898 gob fire that killed 35 men and boys.	Leicestershire	1822 (sinking)–3 July 1986	Coal
Whitwood Colliery A Normanton colliery whose owners shared their profits, and whose village Voysey designed.	West Yorkshire	1871-1878 (sinking)–About 1970	Coal
Whitworth Colliery Sunk to 1,520 feet 8 inches but never found a workable coal seam, defeated by water and cost overruns before it could work at all.	Neath Port Talbot	1907–1911	Coal
Whitworth Colliery (Tredegar) A Tredegar pit whose under-manager, overman and fireman died together in old workings in 1914.	Blaenau Gwent	1876–July 1921	Coal, Ironstone
Whitworth Park Colliery A ruinous speculation of 1842 on Spenny Moor that was reopened in 1928 and worked until 1974.	County Durham	1839 (sinking)–29 July 1974	Coal
Wick Ochre Mines Ochre found while looking for iron, dug from shallow trenches and adits, and ground in a converted iron mill into the reds that painted a generation of buildings.	South Gloucestershire	1892–1970	Ochre
Widdrington Colliery Three shafts, four seams given up in 1911, and a village that took its name from the railway station rather than the pit.	Northumberland	from From 1855	Coal
Wideopen Colliery A pit of 1825 that lit its screens with its own gas and sold its coal as 'Perkins' Wallsend'.	Tyne and Wear	from 1825 (first coal May 1827)	Coal
Wigan Junction Colliery Its first two shafts drowned; in 1908 its rescuers went through the tunnel to the Maypole next door and brought out three survivors.	Greater Manchester	1887–1962	Coal
Wigpool Ironstone Mine One of the Forest of Dean's big iron-ore mines, now a winter roost for rare horseshoe bats.	Forest of Dean	By 1856–1924 (principal mine 1918)	Iron
William Gill Colliery A moorland coal pit whose horse-gin circle, coal stores and coke oven still stand around an open shaft on Stonesdale Moor.	North Yorkshire	by 1804	Coal
William Pit Seven separate accidents at this one pit killed five or more men apiece — the last of them, in 1947, killed a hundred and four	Cumbria	From May 1804 (sinking)–31 December 1954	Coal
Williamthorpe Colliery Sunk through a two-mile basin of floodwater behind nineteen-foot iron tubbing, and still pumping the district dry half a century after it closed.	Derbyshire	1905 (sinking from 1901)–28 March 1970	Coal
Willington Colliery Half a million pounds of capital, and nearly as much again, went into it in the first few years — and it was still raising whinstone and clay alongside the coal seventy years later.	County Durham	1840–1932	Coal, Fireclay
Wills Founder Mine In 1976, members of the North Staffordshire Mining Club discovered a hydraulic pumping engine 360 feet down the shaft -- a type designed by Richard Trevithick in Cornwall around 1790, and one of the oldest surviving engines of its kind anywhere in the world.	Derbyshire	ended by 1976	Lead
Wilson Wood Colliery An Ingleton pit drowned in a night and brought back by a mill-owner who pumped out 58 million gallons.	North Yorkshire	1853 (sinking)–1866 (flooded)	Coal
Wilsontown Ironworks Scotland's second coke-fired ironworks, the site where raw pit coal was first proven to fuel a Scottish blast furnace and where the 'spiral tuyere' was developed.	South Lanarkshire	1779–1842	Iron, Coal
Wimblebury Colliery A Cannock Chase pit whose village had so many chapels it was called the Holy City.	Staffordshire	By 1894–813	Coal, Ironstone
Winch Fawr Colliery A small Crawshay shaft and level above Heolgerrig whose forgotten shaft reappeared when a landslip opened it in 2007.	Merthyr Tydfil	Mid 19th century–March 1924	Coal
Windber Colliery A cluster of Cwmdare drifts and levels whose 1913 entrance stone still stood in 1978.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1905–before 1940	Coal
Windlestone Colliery A Ferryhill-district pit the railways made possible, idle in the 1880s and gone by 1924	County Durham	1876–1924	Coal
Windmill End Colliery A Black Country colliery whose 1831 pumping engine house, Cobb's, outlived the pits and became the last of its kind at work in the district.	West Midlands	1830–1925 or 1928	Coal
Windsor Colliery Connected underground to Universal Colliery at Senghenydd for ventilation from the very year Windsor opened — over a decade before Universal's own workings became the site of the worst mining disaster in British history.	Caerphilly	1895 (sunk)–6 November 1986	Coal
Windy Bank Pit A Joseph Stocks day hole near Halifax where the hurrier Sally Fletcher gave evidence to the Children's Employment Commission in 1841.	West Yorkshire	by 1841	Coal
Wingate Grange Colliery The manager admitted he had never believed in coal-dust explosions until one killed 26 of his men.	County Durham	1839–26 October 1962	Coal
Wingfield Colliery A pair of Bargoed pits whose southern half raised 85,000 tons in its best year, 1881.	Caerphilly	c. 1871–1892	Coal
Wingfield Manor Colliery A twentieth-century Kilburn-seam pit at Oakerthorpe that ended its life merged into Swanwick in 1963.	Derbyshire	1908–November 1963 (merged with Swanwick)	Coal
Winlaton Colliery A medieval colliery that fuelled lime-burning at Windsor Castle and had women working underground in 1587.	Tyne and Wear	by 1366	Coal
Winsford Rock Salt Mine Europe's largest operating salt mine, and the successor to Northwich's collapse-prone 19th-century workings	Cheshire	1844–Still active	Salt
Winspit A Purbeck stone quarry whose wartime defence works and underground galleries have since made it a recurring filming location for Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Star Wars.	Dorset	1719–1953 (surface working ceased c. 1940)	Freestone
Winstanley Colliery Meyrick Bankes's colliery at Winstanley, near Wigan, whose railway ended at the coal tip that became Wigan Pier.	Greater Manchester	By 1562–1900	Coal
Winster Mines At its 18th-century peak, this lead-mining village may briefly have been the fourth largest town in Derbyshire — a status it owed entirely to lead, and lost entirely once the mines flooded out.	Derbyshire	by the 17th century–1938	Lead
Winster Pitts and Drummer's Venture Though worked as two entirely separate concerns by neighbouring parishes, the mines shared one underground adit -- gated precisely on the parish boundary that divided them.	Derbyshire	Worked from the mid-17th century–by mid-19th century	Lead
Winterings Mine Several separate bale-smelting sites survive on Winterings Edge, Winterings High Scar and Winterings Gill, identified by their grey and black slag -- the black, vitreous slag at one site indicating a more sophisticated smelting method than elsewhere in the group, and thought to date somewhat later than nearby comparable sites.	North Yorkshire	before late 16th century (bale-hill smelting evidence)–by 1912	Lead
Wishaw Colliery A Wishaw pit whose 1849 explosion blew both cages, and a man, out of the shaft.	North Lanarkshire	by 1836	Coal
Wistow Mine It won coal but never raised any: everything went ten kilometres underground to Gascoigne Wood — and the same roof that should have caved instead sagged, and let the aquifer in.	North Yorkshire	June 1983–13 May 2004	Coal
Withymoor Colliery A Black Country pit where a leaning headframe over a burning seam snapped a chain and killed eight in 1864.	West Midlands	by 1864	Coal
Witton Colliery A Sacriston pit sunk for Charlaw in 1859 and wound by the same steam engine for seventy-six years.	County Durham	1859 (sinking)–8 January 1966	Coal
Witton Park Colliery One pit opened in 1819 and within a century and a half nearly a hundred more had been sunk within five miles of it — and the ironworks it fed was the first in the north-east of England.	County Durham	June 1819–April 1925	Coal
Wolfcleugh Mine Named among the richest mines in Weardale, on evidence that does not survive the arithmetic.	County Durham	From 1818–1912	Lead, Fluorspar
Wollaton Colliery The deep pit of 1873 on the Willoughby estate where, two and a half centuries earlier, Britain's first documented railway carried coal to Wollaton Lane End.	Nottinghamshire	1873-74–1963–1966	Coal
Wolstanton Colliery For a time, this was the deepest hole miners anywhere in western Europe went to work down every day — 1,140 yards, achieved not by sinking one heroic shaft but by quietly merging three separate collieries into one underground system.	Staffordshire	1920–1986	Coal
Wombwell Main Colliery Wombwell's first deep pit, begun as the railway arrived, and by the end sending half its coal underground to another colliery.	South Yorkshire	1852 (sinking)–May 1969	Coal
Wood Level Colliery By report the very last colliery at work anywhere in the Pembrokeshire coalfield, outliving every other pit in a district worked since the late medieval period.	Pembrokeshire	From 1775–1950	Coal
Wood Mine Its entrance was finally blasted shut in 1964 by 'Blaster' Bates, a demolition expert of some note -- brought in after decades of unbarred entrances and dumped rubble had failed to keep people out.	Cheshire	1857–1877 (closure)	Copper, Lead
Woodfield Colliery A Mynyddislwyn level near Pontllanfraith worked from 1815, whose big lump coal took first prize at the 1909 Newport Carnival.	Caerphilly	1815–c. 1930	Coal
Woodhead Mine Woodhead was a genuine one-man operation on an industrial scale: Colonel Cathcart didn't just finance the mine, he built an entire village around it, complete with a school and library, for a workforce of over 300 people.	Dumfries and Galloway	1838–1873	Lead, Silver
Woodhorn Colliery The pit is now the county archive: eight hundred years of Northumberland records kept in the buildings its winding engines stood in.	Northumberland	From 1894–1981	Coal
Woodhouse Close Colliery A colliery won in 1837 that ended as a 28-foot drift, its pit heaps levelled for a post-war housing estate.	County Durham	1835–1934	Coal
Woodhouse Colliery A proposed coking-coal mine that would have been the UK's first new deep coal mine in thirty years, fought through a decade of planning and legal battles before being withdrawn in 2025 without a shovel turned.	Cumbria	2025–31 March 2025	Coal
Woodifield Colliery A Crook colliery sunk in 1843 worked by Bolckow, Vaughan for half a century and was abandoned in 1944.	County Durham	1843–March 1944	Coal
Woodilee Colliery A Lenzie pit that turned from steam coal to coking coal and quintupled in size.	East Dunbartonshire	1890–1930	Coal, Ironstone
Woodland Colliery An upland Durham coking-coal pit that grew to nearly five hundred men before closing in 1921, leaving its Cowley shaft to work on for another thirty years.	County Durham	By 1874–March 1921	Coal
Woodmuir Colliery West Lothian's 'Blinky', whose tall brick washery still stands among the fields at Breich.	West Lothian	By 1859–1963	Coal
Woodpark Colliery An Oldham-coalfield pit that worked nine seams in turn over nearly 120 years, from the Black Mine of the 1850s to the Colonel Mine under the National Coal Board.	Greater Manchester	c.1836–March 1955	Coal
Woodside Colliery A small Dalserf pit that lasted more than a century, from 1848 into the Coal Board years.	South Lanarkshire	1848–July 1955	Coal
Woodsmith Mine A mine under construction to work the world's largest known polyhalite deposit through what will be the deepest shafts in Europe, still years from production after a decade of delays and a change of owner.	North Yorkshire	from From 2017	Polyhalite
Wooley Colliery A Pease's West pit near Crook that was discontinued in 1931 and came back with nearly 700 men.	County Durham	August 1864–1963	Coal
Woolley Colliery Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader who came to define British industrial politics in the 1980s, started out here as an ordinary young miner in 1953, at a pit by most accounts far from militant.	South Yorkshire	1869–1987	Coal
Woolmet Colliery The tower house that gave the estate its name didn't survive the colliery that replaced it: undermined by Woolmet's own workings, Woolmet House came down in 1954, decades before the pit itself closed.	Midlothian	1898 or 1904 (sources differ)–1966	Coal
Worcester Colliery A Fforestfach colliery where four men died in an explosion in September 1873, run by the Glasbrook family and then Philip Richard.	Swansea	1845–1897 or 1898	Coal
Workington Colliery The sea came in through pillars that had been robbed under it, after the danger had been put in writing to the owner and ignored.	Cumbria	from From the 1730s	Coal
Worsley Navigable Levels An underground canal system built directly into the coalface, so that narrow boats called starvationers could load coal underground and float it straight out to the Bridgewater Canal.	Lancashire	1759–1887	Coal
Wren's Nest Limestone Mines Reached by nearly 3km of canal tunnel; still explored today by boat through the Dudley Canal Trust's underground tours	West Midlands	1780s (Castle Hill)–1920 (mining)	Limestone
Wrenthorpe Colliery A Wakefield pit that closed with its owner's death and came back under the Low Laithes company over ten times its old size.	West Yorkshire	1838–1927	Coal
Wrexham and Acton Colliery A Rhosddu colliery that employed nearly a thousand men, closed in 1924 to send its miners to Gresford.	Wrexham	1868–1924	Coal
Writhlington Colliery Waste rock dumped at the pit head turned out, decades after the colliery closed, to hold the oldest damselfly fossil ever found anywhere in the world.	Somerset	Working by 1829–September 1973	Coal
Wroxton and Adderbury Ironstone Workings Opened not by ordinary industrial demand but on the direct instruction of the wartime Ministry of Munitions, which needed more British iron ore than the existing fields could supply	Oxfordshire	From 1859–1967	Iron
Wrysgan Quarry A workforce that once produced 3,000 tons of slate a year in 1904 had shrunk to just eleven men by the mid-1940s, still working the same underground levels for a fraction of the output — the quarry didn't fail suddenly, it simply wound down to almost nothing before finally stopping.	Gwynedd	1830s–1946	Slate
Wyken Colliery Its subsidence made Wyken Slough, still the largest body of water in Coventry.	West Midlands	1854–1915	Coal
Wylam Colliery The colliery where Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly, the world's oldest surviving steam locomotives, were built to haul coal, and where George Stephenson was born and grew up.	Northumberland	By the 1700s–by 1888	Coal
Wyllie Colliery A whole village built and named for a colliery that only worked for 42 years.	Caerphilly	1926–1968	Coal
Wyndham Western Colliery Wyndham introduced South Wales's first miners' canteen offering a full hot meal service in 1942, and, in 1930, a system recording the colliery manager's own voice to warn men of hazards as their cage descended — modest, human-scaled innovations from a colliery whose Western half began with five men dying in a sinking explosion sixty years earlier.	Bridgend	1865 (Wyndham)–January 1984	Coal
Wynne Quarry A Ceiriog valley slate mine that served as a wartime store, a water supply and a show cave.	Wrexham	c. 1770–1928 (Coflein gives 1920)	Slate
Wynnstay Colliery Struck by three separate fatal explosions in a single decade -- 1863, 1868 and 1873 -- killing thirty men and boys between them.	Wrexham	1856–1927	Coal
Wyrley No. 3 Colliery Harrison's 'Sinking' at Great Wyrley, opened 1896 and 621 strong in 1923, whose coal ran by cable tramway to the Grove's washery after the 1930 disaster and which absorbed the Grove in 1952.	Staffordshire	1896–June 1963 (merged with Mid Cannock)	Coal
Wythburn Mine Its top level, at about 2,300 feet on Helvellyn, may be the highest mineral working in England, and its miners' graves are in Wythburn churchyard below.	Cumbria	1839–1880	Lead