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Mines 1801–1900 of 1945, A–Z (page 19 of 20).

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
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	Ore discovered 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	1753–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Copper, Barite
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
Westthorpe Colliery One of the last new north Derbyshire sinkings, by a family firm that housed its men.	Derbyshire	Sinking from 1923; shaft completed 1924–1984	Coal
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; formal working from 1751–1928	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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead
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	1854–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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–Around the end of the Second World War	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
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	Lead was worked in Arkengarthdale from at least medieval times–uncertain; Arkengarthdale's mines as a whole closed 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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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–Closed around 1870 as part of Clifford Amalgamated Mines	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	worked from 1815 (as separate setts); Basset Mines company formed 1896–1918	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 (abandonment plan); mill dismantled 1947	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 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 (main); failed reworking 1928-1930	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); 1720s (copper production)–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–Merged into Clifford Amalgamated Mines in 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	Reopened 1778; amalgamated into Botallack Mine after 1841–1914 (reopened 1906 after 1894–95 flooding)	Tin, Copper
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	Working before 1780–Closed around 1870 as part of Clifford Amalgamated Mines	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; merged into Wheal Owles c. 1859–Worked as part of Wheal Owles until 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	worked from 1821 (first returns); reopened 1863–1893	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 (as a copper venture); examined for iron 1856-57–1858	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 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–Closed with the rest of Devon Great Consols in 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	opencast, date uncertain; underground working resumed c.1915–1930	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–1925 (surface tribute working to the 1950s)	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Lead
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 (main working); brief reopening 1906-1909	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, as East Wheal Sparnon–1893, as St Aubyn United Mines	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 (initial working); productive from 1850s; formal lease 1845–1920	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); sources differ	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	mining recorded from at least the 1760s–1879 (as Treleigh Wood Mine)	Copper, Tin, Tungsten
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	1560–1816	Tin
Wheal Jane Site of the major 1992 mine-water pollution incident	Cornwall	1861–1991	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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	Worked by at least the 19th century–Reworked unsuccessfully at the start of the 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	Comprises workings on Kingsett Down dating to the late 18th century–Mining ceased around 1924, with only limited reworking in the 1930s	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	documented from 1758; consistently worked from 1834–1930	Tin, Copper, Iron
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 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 (mine); site used as a tailings dam 1970s-1980s	Copper, Tin, Arsenic
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); 1969 (pan kiln use ended)	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	sett granted c. 1701; worked from the mid-18th century–1889 (main); revivals 1911–18, 1938, 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 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	circa 1860–1866	Copper, Tin
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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–1895	Tin
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 the 1960s (exact opening date not established)–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	China Clay
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–Closed 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 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 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 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	Producing large tonnages of copper ore by 1815.–Mining ceased permanently in 1927	Copper, Tin
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 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	underground working from the 15th century–1911 (last major working); abandoned by 1967	Tin, Copper
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	Shining Sough started 1756–Wheelhouse working stopped 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	sunk 1868; production from 1870–October 1987	—
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 (last mine, Cod Hill, near Guisborough)	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	old workings recorded 1678; main periods 1830-1848–c. 1870	Lead
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	Built 1798-1801, blown in 1801 or 1802–Iron production ceased by 1816, possibly as early as 1812	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	worked from 1850; leased and developed by Archibald Hood from 1856–1961-62 (sources differ on the exact year)	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	Working by 1888–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	Lead had been worked on Alston Moor since medieval times–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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
Whitrigg Colliery The Lady of the Dales: three shafts, two surface mines and its own power station.	West Lothian	Sinking and production from about 1900–1972	Coal
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
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); coal raised from 1828–3 July 1986	Coal
Whitwood Colliery A Normanton colliery whose owners shared their profits, and whose village Voysey designed.	West Yorkshire	Shafts sunk 1871-1878; coal reached December 1876–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
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
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–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	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	Sunk from May 1804; first coal drawn 1805–Ceased production 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	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–uncertain; the shaft was disused by 1976	Lead
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	Working by 1894; earlier date not established–Still returning 813 people in 1947; closure date not established	Coal, Ironstone
Windlestone Colliery A Ferryhill-district pit the railways made possible, idle in the 1880s and gone by 1924	County Durham	1876; shaft completed October 1877–1924	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); 1902 (first coal)–6 November 1986	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
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
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–Working ceased by the 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)–uncertain; the last Swaledale and Arkengarthdale mines closed by 1912.	Lead
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
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	Worked by the Beaumonts from 1818–Abandoned 1912; further attempt 1946	Lead, Fluorspar