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Mines 1601–1700 of 1945, A–Z (page 17 of 20).

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
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
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
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 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	Sinking begun 1827; shaft completed June 1832–June 1908	Coal
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	Sunk from 1908; first coal 1910–22 November 1985	Coal
St Just Amalgamated Mines Its old tin ground now lies beneath a golf course between Nanpean farm and Cape Cornwall.	Cornwall	Worked by at least 1907–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Tin, Copper
St Peter's Mine An Allendale lead vein found in 1902 by a drainage tunnel that ran into it	Northumberland	Vein discovered 1902–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Fluorspar
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
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
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	Shafts sunk 1871; production from 1872–Last stone 1921; abandoned 1928	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
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
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	First quarry opened 1815–1956	Granite
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
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	Built around 1770–Closed by 1852	Lead
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
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	Worked since at least the Roman period–1911	Limestone
Stotsfield Burn Mine A medieval settlement's name carried into the twentieth century by the lead and fluorspar mine that took it.	County Durham	Developed from 1863–1966	Lead, Fluorspar
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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Still active (Quoyloo Quarry)	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
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	Working by 1888–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
Sundrum Colliery Two mines under one name, twenty years apart, on the same ground at Coylton.	South Ayrshire	Dalmellington pits by 1894; NCB mine sunk 1952–Earlier mine 1933; NCB mine 1961	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 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
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
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	Established in the late 1740s.–Active until the 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; vernacular roofing from about 1750–1887 (Great Pit; northern pit 1838)	Slate
Sygun Copper Mine Reopened in 1986 as an underground show mine in the heart of Snowdonia	Gwynedd	18th century–1903	Copper
Taff Merthyr Colliery One of the last deep mines sunk in South Wales under private ownership, it became a flashpoint of 1930s industrial unrest when riot police were brought in.	Merthyr Tydfil	Shafts sunk 1922-24; production from 1926–1992 (Taff Merthyr); Trelewis Drift closed 1989	Coal
Tal-y-sarn Quarry As the neighbouring Dorothea quarry expanded, it grew to swallow the original village of Talysarn itself, forcing its relocation -- some of the old village's buildings remained in industrial use, and their ruins can still be seen today.	Gwynedd	First developed in the early to mid-19th century.–20th century	Slate
Talar Wen Quarry A roadside quarry of five hundredths of a hectare, crowded with Llandeilo trilobites.	Carmarthenshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Disused by 1993, when the site was notified	Limestone
Talargoch Mine At its height Talargoch's pumping plant ran to an 80-inch engine, a 100-inch Cornish engine and thirteen smaller engines simultaneously — a small industrial army assembled for one job: keeping 200 feet of waterlogged glacial gravel from drowning the mine beneath it.	Flintshire	documented from 1303; worked continuously from the 1630s–1884 (underground); tip-reworking to 1905	Lead, Zinc
Talnotry Mine Nickel mines are vanishingly rare in Britain, and Talnotry's spoil heaps are valued today less for what could still be dug out of them than for the mineral specimens already sitting on the surface — nickeline and gersdorffite unlike almost anything else in this archive.	Dumfries and Galloway	discovered c. 1885–Mid-1880s	Nickel, Copper
Talwrn Colliery The blast in No. 2 was strong enough to kill a horse in the pit next door, through the roadway that connected them.	Wrexham	Working by 1857; Coedpoeth coal from 1790–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
Talyfan Colliery The same patch of hillside above Pontarddulais was worked as Tal-y-fan-fach, Talyfan, Cae and Glynhir over eighty years, and even the plans admit it was 'Glynhir formerly Cae or Talyfan'.	Swansea	By 1876; later workings 1904-1954–1954 (last Glynhir working)	Coal
Tan Hill Colliery The coalfield around Britain's highest inn, which sent coal to Richmond Castle in 1384 and coke to the Swaledale lead smelters, and was worked into the 1930s.	North Yorkshire	By the 13th century (first dated record 1384)–1935 or 1938 (sources differ)	Coal
Tankerville Mine Tankerville's 1,690-foot shaft — the deepest anywhere in the Shropshire orefield — makes an odd kind of monument: a huge investment in depth chasing the richest vein the county ever recorded, defeated in the end not by running out of lead but by the price of lead itself collapsing under it.	Shropshire	small-scale working from the early 19th century–May 1884 (main); failed reopenings 1891-93, 1911-13	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite
Tannochside Colliery Its owner opened a brand-new brickworks right next to the colliery in 1936, recruiting its entire workforce locally to turn out 150,000 bricks a week.	North Lanarkshire	Worked from 1870 under the Monkland Iron Company.–Closed in September 1945.	Coal
Tarbrax Oil Shale Mine A remote outlying works of the Scottish shale oil industry, its huge red waste bing still visible for miles	South Lanarkshire	1870–1930s	Oil Shale
Tardree Quarry A rare Irish rhyolite quarry, now protected for crystals of tridymite, a high-temperature form of silica, visible only with a hand-lens.	County Antrim	By 1902 (working)–Disused by 1997	Rhyolite
Tarenni Colliery A 1909 flood from long-abandoned neighbouring workings killed five miners here -- and, decades after Tarenni's own closure, its successor drift mine Gleision was the scene of a further fatal flooding disaster in 2011.	Neath Port Talbot	1902-03–4 February 1949	Coal
Team Colliery Worked under four names across two and a half centuries, and the Angel of the North stands on ground cleared from it.	Tyne and Wear	1726–1973	Coal
Teversal Colliery The first colliery the Stanton Ironworks Company sank, still called Butcherwood locally after the ground it stood on.	Nottinghamshire	Sinking began 1868–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
The Moat Pit The world's first known undersea coal mine, a stone tower rising from the Firth of Forth, worked for 35 years before being destroyed by the Great Storm of 1625.	Fife	c. 1590–1625 (destroyed by storm)	Coal
Thoresby Colliery The Miners' Institute (1939) and pithead baths (1949) served a close-knit community whose canteen was named Coal Board 'Canteen of the Year' in 1979, beating fifteen other NCB areas.	Nottinghamshire	Sinking 1925-28; coal reached 25 April 1928–10 July 2015	Coal
Thorne Colliery Seventeen years to sink, and water beat it in the end — the pumps that had run since 1910 were finally switched off in 2004, forty-eight years after the last coal.	South Yorkshire	January 1925–1956	Coal
Thornley Colliery A Durham colliery founded partly on the winnings of a former bare-knuckle prizefighter turned MP, and the site of an 1841 explosion that killed eight boys and one man.	County Durham	1835 (sunk); coal from c. 1839–1970	Coal
Thornthwaite Mine Unusually for a Lake District lead mine, Thornthwaite kept working through the price slump of the 1870s-80s and was worked continuously from 1900 to 1920, reaching 85 fathoms by 1912 with a workforce of around 90.	Cumbria	1780s–Sustained working ended around 1920-21	Lead, Zinc
Threlkeld Quarry and Mine A granite quarry with a reconstructed underground lead and copper mine, now a mining museum	Cumbria	1870–1982	Granite, Lead, Zinc, Barite
Thrislington Colliery The pit that made West Cornforth; its ground is now a limestone quarry, and the bungalows it built for retired miners in 1925 still stand by the war memorial.	County Durham	Boring from 1835; sunk from 15 April 1840–4 March 1967	Coal
Thurcroft Colliery A colliery that took eleven years to reach its coal, because the seam it was sunk for had been displaced by a fault nobody knew was there.	South Yorkshire	1913–1991	Coal
Tibshelf Colliery Charles Seely's Derbyshire pits, and the birthplace of colliery ambulance work.	Derbyshire	Bottom Pits deepened 1864-65; Top Pits sunk 1891–Bottom Pits 1936; Top Pits 1939	Coal
Tideslow Rake Its own lime kiln burned quicklime on site as a cheaper alternative to gunpowder for blasting the rock -- and a unique series of legal agreements records no fewer than five separate soughs dug here between 1648 and 1685.	Derbyshire	Worked between the 12th and 18th centuries–Out of use by c.1800	Lead
Tievebulliagh Axe Factory Axes roughed out here from a single baked block of rock eight metres long were carried to the Outer Hebrides and the south coast of England, over 10,000 of them known today.	County Antrim	Neolithic, c. 3800 BC (axes dated 3800-2500 BC)–c. 2500 BC (end of Neolithic axe production)	Porcellanite
Tilberthwaite Tilberthwaite's working life spans an almost absurd stretch of British mining history in one place — Elizabethan lead and copper prospectors in the 1500s, Victorian mining ambition driving a thousand-yard adit, and a slate quarry that was still being worked into the 21st century.	Cumbria	worked from the late 16th/early 17th century (Elizabethan)–1942 (copper); 2001 (slate)	Copper, Lead, Slate
Tilly Whim Caves 'Tilly Whim' most likely commemorates a quarryman named George Tilly and the wooden crane, the whim, that swung his finished stone down to waiting boats — the very same kind of crane that gave its name to the winding whims used at metal mines across Britain.	Dorset	Worked predominantly through the 18th century; possibly earlier–Quarrying ended around 1812; closed to public access in 1976	Freestone
Tilmanstone Colliery Its coal reached Dover harbour by a three-mile aerial cableway through tunnels cut into the White Cliffs — built for exports that never really came	Kent	Sinking began 1906; coal reached 1912–1987	Coal
Tincroft Mine Carn Brea and Tincroft together raised nearly half a million tons of copper in their combined working lives — output on a scale that puts them among the genuine giants of the Camborne-Redruth district, even though most of the mine's surface footprint today has simply been built over.	Cornwall	By the 1680s–1921 (South Tincroft)	Copper, Tin
Ting Tang Mine Carharrack mine in the West Clifford United sett, worked for tin before 1810 and copper through the mid-19th century.	Cornwall	worked by 1816 for copper; some sources attribute earlier tin working–by 1870, as part of the Clifford Amalgamated Mines combine	Copper
Tinsley Park Colliery Sheffield bell pits sunk for Earl Fitzwilliam in 1819 that grew into a coking works supplying the city's gas, and were buried under a steelworks.	South Yorkshire	1819–Early 1943	Coal
Tintagel Slate Quarries Cliff quarries worked straight off the face of the Cornish coast, where slate was lowered by horse whim to ships waiting at the foot of the rock.	Cornwall	15th century–1937	Slate
Tir Edmund Colliery Its coal was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and a Neath poet wrote verse about it, yet it closed in 1895 because the coal it was raising had gone poor.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1851–December 1895	Coal
Tir-y-Dail Colliery Built up to over 500 men in twenty-five years, then one of many Amman Valley pits whose end is tied to the defeat of the 1926 strike.	Carmarthenshire	1898–1927 (local histories); before 1947 (NMRS)	Coal
Tirbach Colliery Its Big Vein could be seventy feet thick in one place and absent a few yards on, so the thick patches were worked over two or three times.	Neath Port Talbot	1899–1940 (training centre to 1961)	Coal
Tirpentwys Colliery The largest pit in Cwmffrwdoer, kept on after closure as a pumping station so the coal from two other collieries could keep moving underground.	Torfaen	1877–1969	Coal
Titterstone Clee Quarries Dhustone — black stone — cut into setts for the Newport docks, from a hill that had already been mined for ironstone, coal, fireclay and limestone.	Shropshire	Medieval (ironstone); dolerite from the 19th century–All but one quarry closed; Clee Hill still worked	Whinstone, Coal
Tommo Colliery Its abandonment of two separate seams, 34 years apart, is confirmed independently by two separate NMRS accounts.	Merthyr Tydfil	By 1859–After February 1893	Coal
Tomnadashan Copper Mine A short-lived Loch Tay copper venture later used as a filming location for Monty Python and the Holy Grail	Perth and Kinross	1841–1862	Copper, Gold
Tonfanau Quarry Granite on a coast of slate, and reputedly among the hardest in Europe — it built the seafront at Tywyn, and German prisoners of war were working it in 1918.	Gwynedd	1892–1998	Granite
Tonge Colliery The Scowcrofts' Tonge pit on the edge of Bolton, 1854 to 1930, whose death list from Dickinson's and Gerrard's reports is a primer in small-colliery hazards.	Greater Manchester	1854–1930 (abandoned 1932)	Coal
Tonmawr Colliery Opened in 1839 for Messrs Parson & Strange, who went bankrupt within the year; a 14-year-old collier died under a roof fall here in 1864.	Neath Port Talbot	1839 (reopened 1845, then 1860s, then by 1907)–Not listed after 1917	Coal
Tor-y-Fan Colliery A Dowlais Iron Company level that gave up the Black Vein seam in June 1914; a second drift of the same name reworked the seam in the 1930s.	Merthyr Tydfil	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–June 1914	Coal
Torr Works Renamed in 1970 after Ron Torr, the engineer brought in to rebuild it — and the rail terminal kept the old name, so the quarry and its railhead have been called different things ever since.	Somerset	1930s–Still active	Limestone
Totternhoe Stone Mines Totternhoe's stone built Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle from galleries dug directly beneath its own medieval castle — mining and fortress standing one on top of the other for 600 years.	Bedfordshire	Worked from the Roman period–Underground working ended around 1925	Chalk
Tower Colliery Tower's 1994 closure and worker buyout became a genuine national story — a mine British Coal had declared unviable was run profitably by its own former workforce for another thirteen years, closing only once the coal itself, not the economics, ran out.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	coal worked from c. 1805; Tower drift sunk 1864–1994 (British Coal); reopened 1995; closed for good 2008	Coal
Towneley Colliery Kept pumping water for other collieries for over twenty years after its own coal ran out — the site is now a public park.	Lancashire	Late 1860s; first coal February 1869–6 March 1949	Coal
Trafalgar Colliery Installed the first electric pumps ever used underground in a mine in 1882 — and was later bought out entirely by its neighbours just to stop its floodwater reaching them.	Forest of Dean	c. 1860 (gale granted 1842)–1925	Coal
Tranent Collieries Scotland's first railway was built here in 1722 for one purpose only — getting Tranent's coal two and a half miles downhill to the sea	East Lothian	Monastic working from the 13th century–1963	Coal
Treak Cliff Cavern One of only two places on Earth where Blue John fluorspar is found, mined since the 18th century and now a show cave in the Peak District.	Derbyshire	c.1745-50, as Millers Mine–Commercial bulk mining ended 1926	Fluorspar, Lead
Treeton Colliery The third of the Rother Vale collieries, whose sinking stalled for four years for want of capital and which outlived both its partners by nine.	South Yorkshire	Sinking begun 1875–7 December 1990	Coal
Trefor Granite Quarry One of the world's largest granite sett quarries, which built the village below it and shipped its stone down Britain's steepest quarry incline.	Gwynedd	1850–1963, with later intermittent working	Granite
Tregargus China Stone Quarries China clay gets all the fame, but china stone is the ingredient that actually holds porcelain together — ground here by a waterwheel thirty feet across	Cornwall	Worked from around 1870–1965 (last mill closed)	China Stone
Tregonning Hill China Clay Pits The birthplace of the British china clay industry: Cookworthy's first porcelain clay came from pits here after he saw miners mending their furnaces with it.	Cornwall	c. 1746–By 1907	China Clay
Tregurtha Downs Mine After the 1889 fire the men rebuilt the engine house in nine days for nothing, and the local paper said they had worked not for wages only but for their own repute.	Cornwall	Engine first fired 27 March 1883–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Tin
Trelewis Drift Mine Held the South Wales coalfield productivity record and was closed anyway; its buildings are now one of the largest indoor climbing centres in Wales.	Merthyr Tydfil	1954–1989	Coal
Trelogan Mine A North Wales lead, silver and zinc mine that housed Flintshire's first Newcomen engine in 1732 and worked on until 1911 under the chemical firm Brunner Mond.	Flintshire	c. 1694–1911	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Tresavean Mine Before Michael Loam's man engine, reaching a working level at Tresavean meant climbing down — and, at the end of a shift, back up — as much as 1,728 feet of fixed ladders underground; the same journey on the new machine took a fraction of the effort, just by stepping from platform to platform as the rods rose and fell.	Cornwall	1737–1928	Copper, Tin, Arsenic
Treskerby Mine A productive Gwennap-area copper mine, part of the wider Consolidated/United Mines district.	Cornwall	already active by 1800–abandoned a few years after 1828; briefly reopened 1860 and 1922-27	Copper, Tin, Fluorspar
Trevaunance Mine Trevaunance Mine is said to have paid its adventurers £100,000 in dividends over its working life -- a fortune built on ground that never needed to be sunk much below 60 fathoms.	Cornwall	1843–1887	Copper, Tin
Trimdon Grange Colliery The 1882 explosion killed 74 men and boys and produced Tommy Armstrong's best-known ballad; the pit closed on the disaster's 86th anniversary, to the day.	County Durham	May 1845–16 February 1968	Coal
Trimsaran Colliery An anthracite drift colliery whose runaway drams killed sixteen men in two accidents.	Carmarthenshire	Working by 1896; earlier mining in the area from the 1600s–April 1954	Anthracite, Fireclay
Troutbeck Park Green Slate Works Thirteen people worked here in 1883; four years later one fall of rock killed two of them.	Cumbria	In the returns from 1883–Standing by 1894	Slate
Trowell Moor Colliery A Kilburn-seam pit at Stanton Gate run with Cossall, on which Lord Middleton drew a half-yearly royalty; its ground is now open space.	Nottinghamshire	By 1887–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
True Blue Mine A walled greenway called Trueblue Lane, once a packhorse route linking the mine to Sheldon and to neighbouring Magshaw Mine, still runs past the site today.	Derbyshire	Some workings indicate the 18th century–Production ceased shortly after 1913	Lead