All mines (page 14 of 20)

Region

Commodity

Mines 1301–1400 of 1945, A–Z (page 14 of 20).

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Nook Colliery Grew from one shaft to five, and from a fairly ordinary 1866 sinking into the second-largest colliery anywhere on the Manchester Coalfield.	Greater Manchester	1866–1965	Coal
Norchard Colliery Bought by its own neighbour specifically to stop its floodwater — and outlived every other Forest of Dean deep mine by becoming a heritage railway's home instead of a housing estate.	Forest of Dean	1930 (acquired); new drift from 1937–1965	Coal
Norman's Quarry The last quarryman's widow reopened the workings in 1995, half a century after they stopped.	Dorset	Early 20th century–Second World War; reopened 1995	Limestone
North Blaina Colliery The Rising Sun, then the New Sun, then Stone's Pit, then North Blaina: four names for one colliery in sixty years.	Blaenau Gwent	Probably about 1860 as the Rising Sun Pit; returned from 1890–About 1923	Coal
North Downs Mine A Scorrier-area copper and tin mine linked into the Great County Adit drainage system.	Cornwall	worked by the mid-18th century–production tailed off after 1918	Copper, Tin
North Gawber Colliery Sunk in the early 1850s and remade twice — round a new shaft in 1948 and round a surface drift after that — before it was merged into Woolley and closed.	South Yorkshire	1854 (sinking from 1850)–December 1985	Coal
North Laxey Mine Lead, zinc and silver at the head of the Cornaa valley, and a processing floor that survives unusually complete.	Isle of Man	1856–1897	Lead, Silver, Zinc
North Skelton Mine The deepest ironstone mine in Cleveland was also its last survivor -- when North Skelton wound its final tubs in January 1964, it brought down the curtain on the whole East Cleveland iron industry.	North Yorkshire	Ironstone discovered 1865–17 January 1964	Iron
North Staveley Colliery A small pit whose new owners built houses, a chapel and a reading room, and put seventy per cent on the parish in ten years.	South Yorkshire	Sunk in the 1840s as Aston Colliery–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
North Steelend Colliery Probably the smallest coalmine in Scotland when a pneumoconiosis-invalided miner opened it with a licence in 1957, and the set for a Dr Finlay's Casebook rescue scene.	Fife	By 1880; reopened 1957–1896 (colliery); 1965 (private mine)	Coal
North Tunnel Colliery Worked the Big Vein under manager T. Phillips in 1878, very likely the same pit recorded elsewhere simply as "Tunnel" working into the 1910s.	Merthyr Tydfil	By 1878–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
Northern Dale Lead Mines Lords and Ladies Mine works a narrow, flat vein running through reef limestone -- a unique occurrence anywhere in the Derbyshire orefield.	Derbyshire	Mines here documented active by the 1530s–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Northern United Colliery The last deep coal mine in the Forest of Dean closed on Christmas Day, 1965 — seven hundred men and boys out of work in time for the holiday.	Gloucestershire	Preparatory work from July 1932; coal struck 8 February 1934–25 December 1965	Coal
Norton Hill Colliery The colliery's owners never fully accepted the official explanation for the disaster that killed ten of their own men — they blamed gas, while the inspector's own report blamed coal dust.	Somerset	Sunk 1903 (earlier Norton Hill Old Pit worked from at least 1839)–1966	Coal
Norwich Chalk Mines A grid of medieval and later tunnels under the city, and in 1988 a double-decker bus fell twenty-six feet into one of them on Earlham Road.	Norfolk	11th century–19th century	Chalk, Flint
Nostell Colliery Coal was dug here in the ninth century and the priory was licensed to mine it in the twelfth; the Winns were still at it when the pit closed in 1987.	West Yorkshire	1860 (modern colliery); coal worked here from the 9th century–1987	Coal
Noyadd Colliery Opened in 1901 and employing well over a hundred men by 1908, it was abandoned after barely eight years of work.	Carmarthenshire	1901–December 1909	Coal
Nunckley Quarry A granite quarry opened because a railway was routed past it, and worked mainly to ballast that railway	Leicestershire	1896–1922	Granite
Nunnery Colliery The pit that lit Sheffield's fires, and where a haulage rope snapped in 1923 and sent a train of 120 men and boys down an incline.	South Yorkshire	1868–August 1953	Coal
Nutfield and Redhill Fuller's Earth Mines A clay dug for washing wool ended up, four centuries later, refining edible oil and drilling mud.	Surrey	Worked since at least 1583; industrialised from the 1860s-70s–1996 (Copyhold Works)	Fuller's Earth
Nyth-y-Gigfran Quarry Its distinctive green 'Olive Vein' slate and its own 50-year hiatus both ended the same way -- swallowed into Oakeley, which drove a connecting tunnel to it in 1924 and thereby became, for a time, the largest underground slate mine in the world.	Gwynedd	Worked from around 1840–1870	Slate
Oakdale Colliery A Sirhowy Valley colliery sunk from 1907, employing over 2,000 men at its 1938 peak.	Caerphilly	sinking from 1907; production from 1911–August 1989	Coal
Oakeley Quarry For every finished ton of slate Oakeley ever sold, its miners had to remove nine tons of waste rock — over the mine's lifetime, more than 100 million tons of it, enough to bury the mine's own original village beneath a single spoil tip.	Gwynedd	1818–1969 (underground); final closure 2010 (surface, after subsidence)	Slate
Oakley Colliery A village built for an ironworks in 1846, surrounded by hybrid coal-and-ironstone pits, in the field that was Fife's principal source of iron.	Fife	1893 (in production by 1895); earlier pits from the 1820s–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal, Ironstone
Oaks Colliery Oaks Colliery's 1866 disaster killed so many rescuers alongside the original victims — 23 volunteers from neighbouring pits died in the second explosion trying to save survivors — that for decades afterwards it stood as a stark warning about the dangers of underground rescue itself, not just of mining.	South Yorkshire	shaft sunk early 1830s–workings absorbed into Barnsley Main Colliery from 1929	Coal
Oatfield Mine A Crowan copper mine of the 1840s at the eastern end of the Crenver and Wheal Abraham lodes, absorbed into that mine about 1864 and still marked by two open shafts.	Cornwall	By 1825 (newspaper notice); worked in the 1840s–Absorbed into Crenver & Wheal Abraham c. 1864	Copper
Odin Mine Reputedly one of the oldest named lead mines in Derbyshire	Derbyshire	1280 (documented)–1869	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar, Calcite
Ogilvie Colliery Concrete-lined shafts and machine mining from the day it opened in 1923, which was new for Powell Duffryn; a fire in 1971 helped close it.	Caerphilly	1923 (sinking from 1918)–April 1975	Coal
Okeltor Mine Its arsenic refining works are considered among the best-preserved of their date anywhere in the country, the surviving shaft kiln -- used to roast ore in narrow brick-lined shafts -- an especially rare survival.	Cornwall	Adit dug around 1845–Final production in 1887	Copper, Arsenic, Tin
Old Burghclere Lime Quarry A Hampshire chalk quarry whose lime left by rail in sacks, and whose steep warm sides now hold fly orchids and small blue butterflies.	Hampshire	1885–April 1938	Chalk
Old Gang Mines The peat store built to fuel Old Gang's furnaces ran to 39 bays over some 400 feet — a reminder that a lead mine this size consumed almost as much organised logistics in fuel as it did in ore.	North Yorkshire	18th century–1899-1903	Lead
Old Mills Colliery The last training pit of the Somerset coalfield: once it stopped winding coal its shaft was kept for supplies and for teaching men the job, and its workshops taught the Coal Board’s apprentice electricians until Radstock got a technical college.	Somerset	1860–1966	Coal
Old Pit Radstock Sunk in 1793 this was the founding pit of the once-75-mine Somerset Coalfield whose story is now told at the Radstock Museum.	Somerset	1793–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
Ollerton Colliery St Paulinus church, built for the model village and billed by its own builders as 'the cathedral of the new coalfield', began life as a commission for Sir Giles Gilbert Scott — later famous for Battersea Power Station and the red telephone box — before he was dismissed from the project.	Nottinghamshire	Sunk 1923-25 by the Butterley Company; production from 1925–1994-95	Coal
Onllwyn Colliery The drifts closed in the 1960s and the washery kept going until 2023, the last working piece of the anthracite industry in the valley.	Neath Port Talbot	Before 1831 (Nos. 1 and 3); developed from the 1840s–1962 (No. 3); April 1964 (No. 1 drift)	Coal, Anthracite
Orgreave Colliery A Rother Vale colliery whose coke fed Scunthorpe's furnaces, and whose site is now an advanced manufacturing park.	South Yorkshire	1851–October 1981	Coal
Ormonde Colliery Pioneered the remotely operated longwall face in 1963, an attempt to take men off the coalface altogether, and closed seven years later.	Derbyshire	1908 (sinking from 1906)–25 September 1970	Coal
Outwood Colliery A single underground fire brought its own headgear crashing down the shaft it stood over — the colliery never recovered, though the site washed other mines' coal for another 25 years.	Greater Manchester	1840s–1931 (deep working); washery to 1956	Coal
Oxlow Rake Lead Mines A branch called Daisy or Deasy Rake appears on Castleton's 1691 enclosure map, suggesting work here began even before the first named production record of 1709.	Derbyshire	Documented from 1709; possibly worked by 1691–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Page Bank Colliery A fire in the shaft's timber lining trapped the men below, and it was finally put out with five barrels of gunpowder.	County Durham	1850s (sinking from 1853)–July 1931	Coal
Pallaflat Iron Mine A Bigrigg haematite pit of 1874 to 1914 whose spoil heaps gave the mineral world its butterfly-twinned calcite and green baryte a lifetime after the ore ran out.	Cumbria	Company formed 1874; No. 1 shaft working by 1884–Abandoned 1914	Iron
Palmerston Quarry It undercut the quarry above it, and brought down 6.25 million tons of rock on itself.	Gwynedd	1825 (Welsh Slate Company lease)–1883; absorbed into Oakeley	Slate
Pandora Mine A Gwydir Forest lead-zinc mine whose ore fed the purpose-built Klondyke processing mill via a two-mile tramway along Llyn Geirionydd — later the stage for one of Welsh mining's most brazen 1920s investment frauds.	Conwy	Worked intermittently from around 1868–1931 (mine); Klondyke mill closed 1911	Lead, Zinc
Pantdreiniog Quarry Reopened in 1901 as a workers' cooperative by William John Parry, the 'Quarryman's Champion', specifically to employ men locked out of the neighbouring Penrhyn quarry during Britain's longest-ever industrial dispute -- and later renamed two of its own steam locomotives after the union's own leading figures.	Gwynedd	Working from around 1825.–Closed for the final time in 1930.	Slate
Pantyffynnon Colliery An Amman valley anthracite slant driven 500 yards to reach its seam, rebuilt by the Coal Board in 1957 for another twenty-five years and shut eleven years later.	Carmarthenshire	1902 (earlier workings from the 1850s)–31 January 1969	Anthracite, Coal
Parc Mine Interconnected underground with eleven other mines in the Gwydir Forest lead-mining district	Conwy	1855–1963	Lead, Zinc
Park Slip Colliery The 1892 explosion here killed 112 men and boys, one of the worst mining disasters in Welsh history — the pit never fully recovered and closed twelve years later.	Bridgend	1860s, under John Brogden and Sons–1904 (following the 1892 disaster); brief reopening 1924	Coal
Parkenoweth Mine Named in an 1868 parochial history as one of the more prosperous tin mines of the St Just district, alongside Levant, Boscaswell Downs and Wheal Owls -- though no account of its own individual working life has yet been located.	Cornwall	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Tin
Parkfield Colliery Its Brandy Bottom engine house survives as a scheduled ancient monument, one of the most complete relics of the Bristol coalfield.	Bristol	Sunk in 1851 by Handel Cossham; coal was reached in 1853.–Closed on 15 August 1936, as worsening flooding	Coal
Parkhall Colliery Its rope-hauled tramway outlived it: the landsale wharf it fed was still working for the Coal Board in the 1990s.	Staffordshire	c. 1850s–1962	Coal
Parkside Colliery The last new coal mine sunk in Lancashire, working from 1960 to 1993.	Lancashire	sinking from 24 November 1957–1993 (production ceased c. October 1992; formally closed by June 1993)	Coal
Parrock Quarry A quarry that went from thirty-three people to three, and a foreman killed by the one arrangement on the site that needed checking every time.	Cumbria	By 1894 in the official returns–Not worked in 1930	Slate
Parsonage Colliery Its shafts to the Arley seam were the deepest in the country for years — the site is now a supermarket car park with a set of memorial panels to show for it.	Lancashire	Sunk 1913-1920 (halted by WWI); first coal 1921–1992	Coal
Parys Mountain Vast 18th-century opencast with a strikingly coloured mineral landscape	Anglesey	Bronze Age–1904	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold
Peak Alum Works Peak's alum works burned through roughly 100 tons of shale, and up to 200 tons of imported human urine, every year — to make barely a fraction of that weight in alum, England's first great chemical industry running on little more than fire, patience and other people's waste.	North Yorkshire	Discovered 1640; worked from 1650–1862	Alum
Peakshill or Oden Sough Driven at real productive expense between 1726 and 1729 to both drain Odin Mine and hunt for new ore, the sough never found what it was looking for -- the vein dips away beneath Rushup Edge just beyond its end.	Derbyshire	Driven between 1726 and 1729–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Peelwood Colliery A geological fault cut its workings in two — so the company simply sank a whole separate shaft, the Daisy Pit, to get at the coal on the other side of it.	Greater Manchester	1878-83–1929	Coal
Pegswood Colliery Its lease obliged it to send the Duke of Portland fifty tons of best Pegswood coal a year, and twenty-five more to Bothal Castle.	Northumberland	13 May 1868–1969	Coal
Pelsall Hall Colliery The South Staffordshire pit where twenty-two drowned in 1872 and one was never found	West Midlands	By 1872–1892	Coal
Pelton Colliery In one year it lost five boys riding coal tubs and then 24 men to an explosion the jury blamed on rules nobody kept.	County Durham	1835–February 1965	Coal
Pen-ffordd-goch Ironstone Scours Iron ore won by turning water loose on a hillside — and datable to the year, because the scouring stopped when the reservoir that would have supplied it was built in 1817.	Blaenau Gwent	At least the 17th century–By 1817 (scouring)	Ironstone, Coal
Pen-y-Bryn Mine Became, for a period in the 20th century, the centre of the large-scale Halkyn District United Mines operation, itself an amalgamation of nine former mining companies.	Flintshire	early 20th century–1970s (headframe dismantled 1987)	Lead, Zinc
Pen-y-Bryn Quarry The quarry's own name comes from a 17th-century house that continued to be lived in even while the quarry worked around it, remaining occupied until after the Second World War -- and the complex of surviving buildings, including its workers' cottages, a saw mill and a weighbridge, is unusually complete for a Nantlle Valley quarry.	Gwynedd	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Slate
Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Britain's last working Blondins were lifting slate out of these pits until 1979 — and one of them is still hanging there	Gwynedd	1816–1979	Slate
Penallta Colliery The site's most striking monument isn't the surviving headgear but Sultan — a 656-foot earth sculpture of a pit pony, built entirely from the colliery's own spoil.	Caerphilly	Sinking from 1905; first coal raised 1909–1 November 1991	Coal
Penberthy Croft Mine A small Cornish copper mine whose waste dumps became Britain's richest source of secondary lead, copper and arsenic minerals	Cornwall	1798–Late 1840s, with a further phase 1881-83	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead
Pendarves Mine Simms Shaft, sunk in 1967-68, was the first entirely new shaft sunk anywhere in Cornwall in forty years -- a rare vote of confidence in tin mining that the 1985 tin crash ended within two decades.	Cornwall	1967 (Simms Shaft sunk 1967-68)–1984, or after the October 1985 tin crash	Tin
Pendeen Consols Its old workings now lie directly beneath Pendeen Lighthouse.	Cornwall	1856–1870	Tin, Copper
Pendlebury Colliery A Manchester Coalfield pit better known by the name of its neighbouring pub than its own, worked to nearly 1,800 feet and eventually tunnelled through to a second colliery to keep going.	Greater Manchester	1846–June 1961	Coal
Pendleton Colliery George Stephenson, the railway pioneer, sat on its board while his own brother ran the pit day to day — and it went on to become, for a time, the deepest coal mine in Britain.	Greater Manchester	Late 1820s–1939	Coal
Penhalls Mine A St Agnes tin mine assembled from several smaller setts, later half of Wheal Kitty and Penhalls United	Cornwall	Worked by 1834; amalgamated setts–1884 (independent working); 1930 (as Penhalls United)	Tin, Copper
Penlee Quarry Cornwall's most westerly railway ran from this quarry to Newlyn pier — 2 ft gauge, and one of the last industrial narrow-gauge lines working in Britain.	Cornwall	1879–1991	Whinstone, Copper, Zinc
Penmachno Quarry The largest slate quarry in Wales that never had a railway, carting its slate eleven kilometres over the mountain, with a water-wheel incline now scheduled as unique.	Conwy	1818–1962	Slate
Penmaenmawr Granite Quarry The quarry ate the hill it was named after, taking down a Neolithic axe factory and an Iron Age hillfort with it.	Conwy	Commercial quarrying from the 1830s–Still active	Granite
Penmon Quarry The limestone that built both bridges over the Menai Strait, shipped across the water by boat from the quarry that cut it.	Anglesey	18th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Limestone
Pennerley Mine Two Bronze Age barrows stand on the summit of nearby Round Hill, a reminder that people were doing something purposeful on this hillside a very long time before anyone thought to call it Pennerley or start digging for lead.	Shropshire	worked by the 18th century; main phase from 1879-80–1884 (main lead working); baryte worked to 1925	Lead, Barite
Pennyvenie Colliery It outlasted every other pit in the Doon Valley, and when it stopped in 1978 deep coal mining in that part of Ayrshire stopped for good	East Ayrshire	Production from 1872–1978	Coal
Penrhiw Mine Began life as a chance discovery made by Ystumtuen's own miners working beyond their lease boundary, under its original name Pen y Berth or Berth Ddu.	Ceredigion	c. 1727–Known to have been at work until 1882	Lead, Zinc
Penrhyn Quarry The world's largest slate quarry at its 19th-century peak; still Britain's largest today	Gwynedd	1770s–Still active	Slate
Penrikyber Colliery Six years and £130,000 to sink through running sand before it raised a ton of coal — and the first of it came up on a wooden headgear.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1872–1985	Coal
Pensford Colliery Its tall colliery chimney still stands near the village, the most visible surviving relic of the Somerset coalfield in an otherwise pastoral landscape.	Somerset	Sunk in 1909 by Pensford and Bromley Collieries Ltd–Closed in 1955.	Coal
Pentre Colliery Thirty-eight killed on the night shift in 1871 — two of them rescuers who were overcome by afterdamp the moment their cage touched the pit bottom.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1857–1929	Coal
Pentreclwydau Colliery The NCB planned it for 1,000 men and bought a £150,000 continuous miner for it, but faulted ground meant it lasted only nine years; its post-war concrete fanhouse and engine houses are now a scheduled monument.	Neath Port Talbot	Drifts begun 1955; production from 1958–27 May 1967 (NCB); later reopened	Coal
Penwyllt Quarry A quarry village built by an indigo importer, served by a tramroad he went bankrupt building — and undercut by the longest cave system in Wales.	Powys	c. 1820–Brickworks 1937 or 1939; quarrying continues nearby	Limestone, Silica Sand
Penyard Colliery Sources disagree sharply on its lifespan — one gives a small 1901 closure, the other keeps it working within the wider Dowlais Collieries group until 1924.	Merthyr Tydfil	1873–1901, or as late as 1924 (see history)	Coal
Penylan Quarry Cardiff's oldest rocks, quarried for building stone and found to be crammed with Silurian fossils.	Cardiff	By the mid-19th century–Not worked since the 19th century	Sandstone
Perkinsbeach Mine One of the twelve sites in the Shropshire Mines Trust's field guide to the Stiperstones mines; despite a genuine search, no history specific to this site beyond that listing could be located.	Shropshire	1850s (lead); 1889 (barytes)–1912 (barytes); abandoned 1925	Lead, Barite
Perthyglisson Colliery Fed local ironworks under a chain of owners including the Plymouth Iron Company, working the Cefn Glas seam by 1890.	Merthyr Tydfil	By 1858–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
Phoenix United Mine Its 1907 revival, opened with royal ceremony and the last big pumping engine built in Cornwall, raised just 95 tons of black tin before the money ran out in 1914.	Cornwall	1836–1914	Copper, Tin
Pillar Mine The rock pillar that gave the mine its name, left standing inside the entrance for generations of visitors, was finally demolished by vandals in the 1970s.	Cheshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Copper
Pin Dale Lead Side Veins Believed to be a nationally unique feature, its narrow hand-cut slits -- some only 40cm wide -- are the sole known example of Derbyshire miners cutting straight into a limestone crag face to follow a side vein.	Derbyshire	Before the mid-18th century (pre-dynamite)–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Pirnie Colliery The Methilhill cannel pit whose Parrot coal fed a paraffin refinery at Methil harbour, and whose purchase in 1877 helped turn the Fife Coal Company back to profit.	Fife	1856–c. 1920s (date not established)	Coal, Cannel Coal
Pitstone Chalk Quarry and Cement Works A quarry that dug out the hill for cement and left a lake, a nature reserve and an office block behind it.	Buckinghamshire	1937–1991	Limestone, Chalk
Placket Mine In 1856 a Barmaster's jury sent to settle Placket's quarrel with its neighbour over ground under the churchyard found the rival mine locked against them.	Derbyshire	By 1766–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Plas Power Colliery A pioneer of electric power underground, whose central generating station lit two other collieries and still stands at Southsea.	Wrexham	1875 (coal from 1877)–1938	Coal
Plassddu Quarry One of at least 37 quarries once at work in the Nantlle Valley, a slate district notable for its many small, independently-run operations rather than a handful of large integrated enterprises.	Gwynedd	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Slate
Plean Colliery Its site is now a country park; twelve men died here in the explosion of 1922	Stirling	production by 1901–1962 (abandoned 1963)	Coal
Pleasley Colliery Britain's only surviving colliery with two steam winding engines set back-to-back in one engine house; both preserved and restored by volunteers	Derbyshire	1873 (shaft sinking); 1877 (production)–1983	Coal
Plynlimmon Mine The highest mine in mid-Wales, whose underground shape has been reconstructed from Victorian trade-press reports	Ceredigion	Worked from 1867–1897	Lead
Pochin Colliery Fourteen men repairing a pump died here in 1884, with all forty-three ponies stabled underground; a fifteenth man fell down the shaft in the crush at the pithead.	Blaenau Gwent	Sunk from 1876; first coal 1881–1964	Coal, Ironstone