All mines (page 18 of 20)

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Mines 1701–1800 of 1945, A–Z (page 18 of 20).

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Tudhoe Colliery A big Weardale Iron and Coal Company pit that made coke by the trainload — and where 37 men and boys died in the Brockwell seam in 1882.	County Durham	1864–September 1935	Coal, Fireclay
Tudhoe Whinstone Mine A whinstone working on the Hett Dyke near Spennymoor: quarried in a long open trench between Tudhoe and Hett, then followed underground from shafts by 1882.	County Durham	By 1882 (quarried earlier)–After 1890; not listed in 1902	Whinstone
Tunstead Quarry The largest limestone quarry in the country, and the reason the Peak District National Park has a bite taken out of it.	Derbyshire	1929–Still active	Limestone
Turf Copper Mine Its 'ore' was peat: copper from the rock below had turned leaves, acorns and hazelnuts into metal, and the ash sold so well that one year cleared £20,000.	Gwynedd	Early 19th century–Unknown; mostly worked out by the mid-19th century	Copper
Turnavore Mine A 60-inch pumping engine is a serious piece of Cornish engineering -- and Turnavore's was thought valuable enough that when the shaft no longer needed it, the engine itself was moved next door rather than scrapped.	Cornwall	1837–1895	Tin, Copper
Twentylands Mine Its freeing is recorded only because it got caught up in a payments dispute with the sough company whose drainage work it depended on.	Derbyshire	Working by 30 June 1701–Disused by 1880	Lead
Twin Shafts Its two shafts drop directly into the deeper reaches of neighbouring Reeking Mine, physically tying together workings that field evidence suggests span the 18th, early 19th and mid-19th centuries.	Cheshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Copper
Twyn-y-Waun Colliery A drift owned by the Tynywaun Colliery Company by 1917, working 18 seams totalling 97.5 feet of coal through 1,200 feet of strata.	Merthyr Tydfil	By 1917–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
Ty Trist Colliery Tredegar's house of sorrow, sunk in 1834 as a water balance pit and still working 125 years later, with 2,152 people on its books in 1923.	Blaenau Gwent	1834–1959	Coal, Ironstone
Tyddyn Gwladys Mine A failed gold mine that became a gunpowder works for the 'Welsh Gold King' and then a barracks for his miners, on lodes known for rare rich silver ore.	Gwynedd	Before 1862 (lead and zinc)–Unknown; site reused as gunpowder works 1887-89	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Tylechafach Colliery One of a handful of collieries anywhere to work the Ty Du seam, and a pit whose workforce went from 58 men to 397 and back to 29 inside a quarter of a century.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1874–1930 (Ty Du seam abandoned)	Coal
Tylorstown Colliery Named for the village that grew up around it rather than for its owners, Tylorstown was, administratively, simply another set of Ferndale's own numbered pits by the time disaster struck it in 1896.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1858 (No.8 shaft); Pendyrys pits 1873–76–Nos. 6–8 1936; No.9 October 1960	Coal
Tymawr Colliery After 1958 every ton from the combined colliery came up through Tymawr, while the famous name next door wound only men and materials.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–June 1983	Coal
Tymawr East Quarry Worked as an open pit and hillside quarry on the south side of the road between Nantlle and Talysarn, one of a paired East and West working of the same name.	Gwynedd	Opened around 1860.–Closed around 1910.	Slate
Tymawr West Quarry Grew from a pit-and-hillside working into a full open pit served by a Blondin cableway as work progressed downward, yet even at its peak in the 1860s never employed more than about 40 men and produced well under 1,000 tons of slate a year.	Gwynedd	Active by the 1860s.–Closed during the 1930s.	Slate
Tyndrum Mines Tyndrum owes its lead mine to an accident of estate boundaries: Sir Robert Clifton, prospecting the Breadalbane estate he had leased in 1730, stumbled on the veins in 1741 without setting out to find them, and the mine his discovery started outlived him by nearly two centuries.	Stirling	1741 (vein discovered)–1926	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Tynedale Colliery A Hexham pit where 27 Welsh miners, brought in to break a 1903 dispute, first refused to go down in solidarity.	Northumberland	Sunk 1900–1924 (seam plans abandoned 1926)	Coal
Tynehead Mine A lead mine in the Alston Moor orefield, at the head of the South Tyne.	Cumbria	1854–1873	Lead, Copper
Tynemount Colliery The Ormiston Coal Company's last pit, one shaft and three hundred men, closed 1952.	East Lothian	Sinking and production from 1924 or 1925–Closed 1952; abandoned 1962	Coal
Tynewydd Colliery, Porth Porth's water-balance pit, flooded from the old Cymmer workings in 1877 and the scene of the rescue that won the first Albert Medals on land.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1852–1901	Coal
Tyning Colliery Its own branch line climbed Tyning Hill so steeply that it had to cross the Somerset and Dorset twice — and its spoil kept being tipped for forty-five years after the pit itself shut.	Somerset	1837–1909	Coal
Tynybedw Colliery A Rhondda pit whose upcast shaft had no cage, only a barrel — which killed six men in 1895.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Opened between 1874 and 1878–1933 or January 1935	Coal
Tynywain Colliery Owned by the Swansea Vale Spelter Company and later the National Smelting Company, employing up to 44 men in 1927.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1918–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
Tywarnhayle Mine Its 1906 flotation plant is described by Cornwall's own Historic Environment Record as the remains of 'the world's first commercial froth flotation plant' -- an extraordinary claim for a small, commercially unsuccessful Cornish revival, and one this record treats with real caution rather than repeating as fact.	Cornwall	1750–1864	Copper, Tin
Ubberley Colliery John Ridgway the potter's Bucknall colliery, where seven died in an 1851 explosion after the safety lamps were handed in; later a Chatterley Whitfield pit of nearly five hundred, abandoned by 1904.	Staffordshire	By 1836–1900 (abandoned by 7 September 1904)	Coal
Ubley Rake One of two large rakes -- open lead workings over 100 metres long and up to 10 metres deep -- that anchor the historic Charterhouse lead field on Mendip, worked since Roman times and reworked in the 19th century for its own lead-rich slag.	Somerset	Roman times (industrial phase from 1844-47)–1885	Lead
Udston Colliery A hundred and eighty-four men went down that Saturday morning and seventy-three did not come back up.	South Lanarkshire	Begun about 1875–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal
Ullcoats Mine Once called 'the most prosperous and productive iron mine in West Cumberland', Ullcoats was eventually connected underground to its neighbour Florence Mine, together forming one of the last working iron ore mines in Europe.	Cumbria	Registered 1897; first shaft sunk 1900–1959 (Ullcoats); 2007 (Florence–Ullcoats complex)	Iron
Underwood Colliery A Barber Walker pit at Underwood, worked from 1728 and covered by the 1842 Children's Employment Commission.	Nottinghamshire	Worked from 1728; 1831, 1855 and 1875 all given–1885	Coal
United Mines Once part of Gwennap's 'richest square mile on earth', this Cornish copper mine worked what was, under John Taylor, described as the richest copper lode in the world.	Cornwall	c.1780; profitable from 1822 under John Taylor–1857 merged into Clifford Amalgamated Mines	Copper, Tin
Unity Brook Colliery Kearsley’s darkest day: forty-three killed in 1878, and a jury that praised the management and declined to recommend safety lamps.	Greater Manchester	Before 1878–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Coal, Cannel Coal
Universal Colliery Two explosions, twelve years apart, at the same colliery — the second of them still the single worst mining disaster in British history.	Caerphilly	1891 (sinking)–1928	Coal
Unst Chromite Mines A narrow-gauge railway built in 1907 to carry the ore never carried a single passenger — and none of Shetland's few industrial railways survived, this one included	Shetland Islands	1817 (discovery); 1824 (quarrying)–1944	Chromite
Upton Colliery Forty years from first sod to closure, ended by an explosion that had to be sealed underground and could not be reopened.	West Yorkshire	1927–1964	Coal
Upton Pyne Manganese Mine Until 1810 this was the chief manganese producer in southwest England, shipped from Exeter Quay for the glass trade — and, as far as is documented, the first English manganese source ever worked.	Devon	Ore recognised c.1770; mining began March 1788–Probably by the mid-1820s	Manganese
Usworth Colliery Forty-two killed in 1885 by a shot fired in a stone drift — and a relief fund that paid a widow five shillings a week, and stopped if she remarried.	Tyne and Wear	1845–1974	Coal
Valleyfield Colliery Its coal spent the last thirteen years travelling to another county underneath the Firth of Forth before it saw daylight	Fife	1908–1978	Coal
Van Mine Briefly one of the richest lead mines in the UK during the 1870s boom	Powys	1862–1922	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite
Vane Tempest Colliery The shafts were sunk using the freezing process — deliberately freezing the ground solid around the shaft as it was dug, to hold back water and quicksand long enough to sink it safely.	County Durham	Sinking from December 1923; opened 1926–Last working shift 23 October 1992; closed 4 June 1993	Coal
Vanwain Colliery Named alongside fifteen other Dowlais Iron Company levels abandoned together in May 1924, when the works no longer needed its own pits.	Merthyr Tydfil	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–May 1924	Coal
Varteg Hill Colliery A zig-zag railway of five reverses got the coal off the hill, and a hundred yards below the top of Vipond's incline it crossed over itself.	Torfaen	Vipond in the area from 1840; Varteg Hill from the 1860s–Merged with Deakins Slope at nationalisation, 1947	Coal, Ironstone
Vauxhall Colliery A Ruabon pit that began as the Kenyon Colliery and took a new name with a new shaft, and worked on for three years after it was first warned of closure.	Wrexham	1850s (as Kenyon Colliery)–1928	Coal
Ventonwyn Mine A small Hewas Water tin mine whose stamps engine house still stands alone in a field beside the A390, photographed with its whole workforce lined up in 1894.	Cornwall	By 1889–c. 1907 (independently); 1913 (with Great Dowgas)	Tin
Via Gellia Lead Mines A single 1970s survey of just one part of this valley's mining ground counted 114 shafts — evidence of just how densely this narrow Derbyshire dale was worked for lead over more than a century.	Derbyshire	By 1750 (Thumper Sitch worked from at least 1754)–c. 1886	Lead
Victoria Colliery, Biddulph Robert Heath's Biddulph Valley pit at Black Bull, renamed Victoria in 1900 and the valley's last deep mine when it shut in 1982; its balance wheel stands outside the town hall.	Staffordshire	Developed from 1857 (shafts by 1850); renamed Victoria 1900–28 July 1982	Coal, Ironstone
Viewly Hill Ganister Quarry Five people on a Durham moor digging the stone that lined Sheffield's furnaces.	County Durham	By 1921–1923	Ganister
Vigra Mine Vigra's own story has been almost entirely swallowed by its more famous neighbour: because the two mines were so often worked and recorded together, no one today actually knows how much gold Vigra produced on its own account.	Gwynedd	1833 (application); worked as copper mine 1825-1845; gold from 1860s–c. 1910 (little work after 1879)	Gold, Copper
Vitifer Mine (Birch Tor and Vitifer) Vitifer holds the distinction of outlasting every other tin mine on Dartmoor: by the time it finally closed in 1925, centuries after stream working first began on the site, it was the last one still standing.	Devon	documented from 1750 (Vitifer); 1757 (Birch Tor)–1925	Tin
Vivian Quarry Its flooded former workings, up to 18 metres deep, are now a popular diving centre where divers can explore surviving quarry huts and equipment still standing on the submerged quarry floor.	Gwynedd	1870s–Slate working finished in 1960.	Slate
Voilart Colliery Given railway sidings for a 'new colliery' in 1877, with a brickfield at its door, it had vanished from the map by 1900.	Swansea	By 1871–By 1900	Coal
Votty and Bowydd Quarry Votty and Bowydd's own history is really the history of two quarries becoming one, then being folded again into its neighbours after closure — a pattern of merger and absorption that runs right through Blaenau Ffestiniog's slate industry.	Gwynedd	c. 1800–1963	Slate
Vron Colliery The pillars holding up its shafts were mined out from the level next door after it closed.	Wrexham	Sunk 1806–1930	Coal
Vron Quarry Named its own De Winton locomotive 'Vron' in 1878, and survived long enough to run a second, secondhand locomotive from a neighbouring quarry -- a 1904 Hunslet, originally built for Moel Tryfan Quarry, acquired in the 1900s.	Gwynedd	Working by 1815 under John Evans–Worked, with interruptions, until 1950.	Slate
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; a slant about 1904–1923	Coal
Wagstaff Colliery Worked the Six-Feet seam near its outcrop, its 1914 closure independently confirmed by two separate NMRS accounts.	Merthyr Tydfil	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–June 1914	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
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
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
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)–No further working recorded after 1956	Lead, Fluorspar
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
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 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 House Mine It raised lead and umber together — metal and pigment out of the same small mine.	Northumberland	In the returns from 1882–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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
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	A sough-driving venture was underway by 1746–The mine's final Annual General Meeting was held in February 1872.	Lead
Waterland Colliery A Carluke colliery returned in the official 1880 list of collieries at work under William Hamilton and Co.	South Lanarkshire	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	sinking began 1873; reached the Barnsley seam 1876–amalgamated with Manvers Main 1 January 1986; closed 25 March 1988	—
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
Wednesbury Oak Colliery A Black Country colliery worked to feed its own ironworks, coal and ironstone together.	West Midlands	Working by 1894; ironworks alongside from 1820–1908-1909	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	Early 1840s–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	Shafts sunk 1912; production from 1915–Last coal 11 May 2010	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, probably Roman–Still active (small scale)	Limestone
Wellesley Colliery Scotland's first pithead baths, and in 1938 the largest coal washery in Europe	Fife	1883-85 (as Denbeath); renamed Wellesley 1905–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
Wellsways Colliery Twelve dropped 756 feet in 1839 when the rope broke; the inquest found it had been cut.	Somerset	Working by 1839; sinking date not established–Last return 1896; closure date not established	Coal
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
Wentworth Silkstone Colliery A drift mine that kept driving into fresh seams for sixty-seven years until the Whinmoor ran out.	South Yorkshire	Shafts 1856; drift mine opened June 1911–Summer 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–Last recorded working 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, on smaller workings mapped in 1878–79–2023 (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 (level); pit sunk by 1846–1908 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	1811–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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
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); 1908 (formal opening)–6 November 1965	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 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 (as Ventongimps Mine); reopened 1856 as West Chiverton–1886 (underground working ceased 1882)	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver
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; main working from 1857–Finally abandoned in 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; possibly 1761–Closed by 1900	Coal
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	1866–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	uncertain (fluorite/galena); late 19th century (ironstone)–uncertain (SSSI designation 1968)	Iron, Lead
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	Built from 1850 to access the western end of the Blakethwaite vein.–Abandoned in 1861 after the vein proved barren	Lead
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