MineArchiveAll mines (page 3 of 4)
Mines 201–300 of 364, A–Z (page 3 of 4).
| Mine | Region | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knotlow Mine Lead mine hand-worked in solid limestone, active from at least 1702 into the later 19th century; two surviving gin circles and engine house remains. |
Derbyshire | at least 1702–later 19th century | Lead |
| Lady Victoria Colliery Scotland's largest surviving steam winding engine spent nearly 90 years hauling men and coal up and down Lady Victoria's shaft — and can still be seen turning today, in the museum the colliery itself became. |
Midlothian | Sunk from 1890 by the Lothian Coal Company; in production from 1894–1981 | Coal |
| Ladywash Mine Ladywash's two working lives, two centuries apart, were driven by entirely different industries at each end — Georgian and Victorian lead demand at the start, and 20th-century steelmaking's need for fluorspar flux at the end. |
Derbyshire | sough begun 1714; mine started 1740; reworked from 1936/1950s–1979 | Lead, Fluorspar |
| Leadhills "God's Treasure House" — historic lead-mining village |
South Lanarkshire | 1239–1938 | Lead, Silver, Gold |
| Lecht Mine Scotland's largest manganese mine lasted five years, and everything that survives of it is one stone building on an empty hillside at 1,400 feet |
Moray | Iron ore from 1730; reopened for manganese in 1841–1846 | Manganese, Iron |
| Lee Moor China Clay Works One of only two places in Britain still working china clay — and the pits leave nine tonnes of waste behind for every one they sell |
Devon | from 1820s-30s | China Clay |
| Levant Mine Workings extend under the sea; site of the 1919 man-engine disaster |
Cornwall | 1787–1930 | Tin, Arsenic, Copper |
| Lewis Merthyr Colliery Now the Rhondda Heritage Park, with underground tours led by former miners |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 1850 (Hafod/Coed Cae pits); 1880/1890 (Bertie/Trefor shafts)–1983 | Coal |
| Lindal Moor Locomotive No. 115 is still down there: not recovered, and barely searched for since the 1890s, quietly resting beneath Lindal-in-Furness in workings its own railway line's foundations had helped undermine. |
Cumbria | worked on a large scale from the mid-19th century–c. 1914-1915 | Iron |
| Llanharry Iron Mine The last iron mine in Wales — in the country that had once made more iron than anywhere on earth |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | Early 1900s–1975 or 1976 | Iron |
| Llanymynech Hill Mines and Quarries The Romans fortified the hill to protect the copper mine, and eighteenth-century visitors to the cave were still turning up skeletons with coins of Antoninus beside them |
Powys | Copper worked from the later Bronze Age; extensive Roman working 2nd-4th century AD–Copper abandoned around 200 AD; limestone quarrying ceased in the twentieth century | Copper, Limestone |
| Llay Main Colliery Seven years to sink, a thousand yards deep, the largest colliery in Wales and the deepest pit in Britain — and an industrial estate over the top of it now. |
Wrexham | Sinking begun 1914, suspended 1917, resumed January 1919, completed April 1921; first coal 1923–1966 | Coal |
| Llechwedd Slate Caverns Nearly ruined within its first years until unpaid workers found the great 'Old Merioneth Vein'; now a major slate heritage attraction |
Gwynedd | 1846–1970s (working quarry); reopened 1972 as a visitor attraction | Slate |
| Llywernog Mine Llywernog's first recorded lessee, in 1749, was Lewis Morris — one of 18th-century Wales's most significant literary figures, better remembered today for his poetry and antiquarian scholarship than for the lead mine he briefly held the lease on. |
Ceredigion | 1742 (vein discovered); worked from 1770s–1891 (lead); 1911 (zinc revival) | Lead, Silver, Zinc |
| Lochaline Mine A patch of England's white cliffs, geologically speaking, stranded 500 miles away on a Scottish sea loch — and the only underground sand mine left in Europe. |
Highland | 1940–Closed 2008; reopened 2012, still active | Silver Sand |
| Lofthouse Colliery Seven men died because nobody read the old plans — and there are 119 catalogued plans for this colliery in the national mine-plans record |
West Yorkshire | Shafts sunk 1873-1877–1981 | Coal |
| Loftus Mine One of the few Cleveland ironstone mines whose actual underground workings, rather than just surface remains, can still be visited. |
North Yorkshire | 1859–1958 | Iron |
| Loggerheads Loggerheads' transformation is about as complete as a mining site can undergo: a working lead and zinc district that once needed its own purpose-built miners' settlement is now valued instead for its conservation status, walked by visitors who are mostly there for the scenery rather than the industrial history beneath it. |
Denbighshire | worked from at least the 18th century–19th century (exact closure date unclear); site now a country park | Lead, Zinc |
| Long Rake Spar Mine Fluorspar (with lead) mine near Youlgreave, opened 1867, underground working continued to 1981. |
Derbyshire | 1867–1981 (underground) | Lead, Fluorspar, Calcite |
| Longannet Colliery The end of deep coal mining in Scotland, brought about not by exhaustion of reserves or economics but by a single sudden inrush of water. |
Fife | 1969–2002 (flooding); formally closed 2002 | Coal |
| Longstone Edge Longstone Edge's real modern significance has little to do with the minerals it produced and everything to do with what a single sentence in a 1952 mineral permission was later argued to allow — a dispute that ended up before the Court of Appeal more than half a century after it was written. |
Derbyshire | from worked from at least the 18th century (lead veins); modern fluorspar quarrying from 1926 | Fluorspar, Lead, Barite |
| Luing Slate Quarries Villages were purpose-built here for the slate trade in the 1820s — and the last of them kept quarrying until 1965, decades after most of Scotland's other slate islands had given up |
Argyll and Bute | Worked from the mid-18th century–1965 | Slate |
| Lundy Granite Quarries Abandoned in 1868 and barely touched since — the quarry, its tramway and its hospital are all still there. |
Devon | 1863–1868 | Granite |
| Magpie Mine Notorious 1833 fatal feud; best-preserved Peak District lead mine |
Derbyshire | 1740–1958 | Lead |
| Mandale Mine Notable surviving engine-house remains near Bakewell |
Derbyshire | 1797–1851 | Lead |
| Maypole Colliery The last victim of its 1908 explosion was not brought to the surface until 1917 — nine years after the disaster that killed him |
Lancashire | Opened 1895; fully operational by 1898–1930s | Coal |
| Merthyr Vale Colliery Once the South Wales Coalfield's biggest pit; its waste tip was the source of the 1966 Aberfan disaster |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 1869 (sinking); 1875 (production)–1989 | Coal |
| Michael Colliery Closed after a 1967 underground fire killed nine miners, one of Fife's worst mining disasters |
Fife | 1892 (sunk); 1898 (production)–1967 | Coal |
| Middleton Tyas Copper Mine For a mine that barely lasted a generation at full intensity, Middleton Tyas left an outsized reputation: its copper was rated among the highest-grade ore found anywhere in Europe, a rare distinction for so small and short-lived an English deposit. |
North Yorkshire | worked sporadically from the 15th century; main phase mid-18th century–mid-18th century (exact date unrecorded) | Copper |
| Millclose Mine England's most productive lead mine, finally defeated by catastrophic underground flooding |
Derbyshire | 17th century–1940 | Lead, Zinc |
| Milldam Mine Reopened in 1985 to mine what the lead miners of a century earlier had thrown on the spoil heap. |
Derbyshire | Lead mining to 1885; reopened for fluorspar in 1985–Production ceased October 2023; on care and maintenance | Lead, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar |
| Milwr Tunnel A single drainage tunnel grew, over sixty years, into more than sixty miles of connected passages — and when it accidentally broke into a flooded cavern in 1917, a holy well several miles away ran dry |
Flintshire | Begun July 1897; driven in stages to 1957–Lead mining ended 1977; maintenance work ceased 1987 | Lead, Zinc |
| Minera Lead Mines A major North Wales lead-mining centre, now restored as a country park with a working beam engine house |
Wrexham | 13th century (documented); revived 1845 under John Taylor & Sons–1914 | Lead, Zinc |
| Mount Wellington Mine Mount Wellington's water problem was so severe that the mine ultimately proved more useful helping drain its neighbour Wheal Jane than as a producer in its own right — an unusual case of a mine's second act eclipsing its first. |
Cornwall | 1976–1978 (initial closure); 1991 (final closure, as part of the Wheal Jane group) | Tin |
| Mountsorrel Quarry A rock face barely metres from Mountsorrel's still-thriving industrial quarry is fenced off and left entirely alone — because Castle Hill's asphaltite is rare and significant enough to have been drawn on for international research into how life on Earth actually began. |
Leicestershire | from Roman period (possibly earlier); worked commercially from the 1750s-60s | Granite |
| Muirshiel Barytes Mine A remote Renfrewshire barytes mine worked for around 200 years; once produced a third of the UK's total output |
Renfrewshire | mid-18th century–1969 | Barite |
| Mulreesh Lead Mines Islay's lead was worth mining as much for its silver as for the lead itself — at up to 40 ounces of silver per ton of metal, a good haul of ordinary-looking galena from this one Hebridean island could yield a genuinely valuable by-product most British lead mines never saw in anything like the same quantity. |
Argyll and Bute | 1360 (earliest evidence); worked intermittently to 1872–1900 | Lead, Silver |
| Mynachdy (Rhosmynach and Carmel Head Copper Mines) Its 1839 prospectus compared the ground to Parys Mountain, then briefly the largest copper mine in the world — the comparison did not hold up |
Anglesey | Gaddair Copper Mining Company from 1839; Rhosmynach reopened under lease from 1863–1926 | Copper, Chrysotile |
| Mynydd Newydd Colliery Its miners cut a chapel out of the coal face in 1845 and held a service in it every Monday morning for sixty years |
Swansea | 1843–1 July 1955 | Coal |
| Nant-y-Garw Lead Mine Most Welsh lead mines grew messily over a century or more, one owner's additions piled on the last — Nant-y-Garw did all its growing and dying inside a single generation, which is exactly why what's left today reads as one coherent design rather than an accumulation of afterthoughts. |
Powys | 1877 (vein discovered); 1882 (work commenced)–1899 | Lead |
| Nantymwyn Mine Once the largest lead mine in south Wales, reputedly earning its 18th-century owner £300,000 |
Carmarthenshire | 1747–1932 | Lead, Zinc |
| Nenthead Mines Core of the North Pennines orefield; one of England's highest villages |
Cumbria | 1737–1961 | Lead, Silver, Zinc |
| New Consols Mine Few mines changed their name as often as this one — Wheal Martha, Great Wheal Martha, New Wheal Martha, New Great Consols and finally New Consols — a small clue to just how many times the site was reorganised, refinanced and rebranded across more than a century of working. |
Cornwall | worked as Wheal Martha from the 19th century; major arsenic works from 1860s–1953 | Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver |
| New Glencrieff Mine New Glencrieff has the distinction of being both one of the richest lead mines Britain ever had — an estimated 105,000 tonnes of lead smelted from its ore over two and a half centuries — and the very last mine standing in a village, Wanlockhead, that had lived and died by lead mining since the 17th century. |
Dumfries and Galloway | 1718–1958 (main working); reprocessing to early 1960s | Lead, Zinc |
| Newry Granite Quarries A pillar cut here, up to 21 feet long, still stands in Manchester Town Hall — a piece of County Down granite doing civic duty two hundred miles from home |
County Down | from Moor Quarry worked from the 1840s; peak activity around 1900 | Granite |
| 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 |
| 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 (Holland's original lease); consolidated as Oakeley Quarry in 1883–1969 (underground); final closure 2010 (surface, after subsidence) | Slate |
| 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; production there ceased 1991 | Coal |
| Odin Mine Reputedly one of the oldest named lead mines in Derbyshire |
Derbyshire | 1280 (documented)–1869 | Lead, Barite, Fluorspar, Calcite |
| 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 |
| Parc Mine Interconnected underground with eleven other mines in the Gwydir Forest lead-mining district |
Conwy | 1855–1963 | Lead, Zinc |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Penrhyn Quarry The world's largest slate quarry at its 19th-century peak; still Britain's largest today |
Gwynedd | from 1770s | Slate |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Point of Ayr Colliery North Wales's last working colliery; extended out beneath the Dee Estuary until closure in 1996 |
Flintshire | 1883 (company formed); 1890 (main seam struck)–1996 | Coal |
| Poldice Mine Poldice's three-act history — tin, then copper, then arsenic — tracks the entire arc of Cornish hard-rock mining in miniature, each shift in product driven by exactly the kind of market collapse and diversification that played out across the county as a whole. |
Cornwall | by 1512 (documented); certainly worked by the 17th century–1930 | Copper, Tin, Arsenic |
| Poltesco Serpentine Works A Cornish cove that briefly supplied mantelpieces to royalty, undone in the end by one lost, uninsured shipment. |
Cornwall | Small-scale working from the early 18th century; factory built 1855-66–1893 | Serpentine, Talc |
| Portland Stone Quarries One of the few UK quarries to have deliberately converted from open working to underground mining specifically to reduce its surface footprint. |
Dorset | Worked since at least the Roman period; the Bowers site itself since the late 18th century–Still active | Limestone |
| Preseli Bluestone Quarries If the quarrying interpretation is right, this is the oldest working record in the entire archive by roughly four and a half thousand years — and archaeologists still argue about whether it happened at all |
Pembrokeshire | from Neolithic working, radiocarbon dated to around 3000 BC | — |
| Prestongrange Colliery The earliest colliery in Scotland to be recorded in writing, and the only Cornish beam engine north of the border |
East Lothian | 12th century; the final colliery's first shaft sunk 1830–1962 | Coal, Fireclay |
| Pretoria Pit (Hulton Colliery Bank Pit) The third-worst mining disaster in British history happened here on the last working day before Christmas 1910; the pit then worked on quietly for another twenty-three years. |
Greater Manchester | Shafts sunk 1900–01–14 April 1934 | Coal |
| Priddy (St Cuthbert's) Lead Works The 1863 dye-tracing experiment that proved St Cuthbert's wastewater reached Wookey Hole within eight hours — after chaff and ink had both failed to show up — is one of the earliest documented uses of dye tracing to prove underground water connections anywhere in Britain. |
Somerset | AD 49 (Roman)–1908 | Lead, Silver |
| Pulloxhill Gold Mine A royal gold mine seized by the Crown in 1680, besieged by prospectors for months, and found to contain nothing but flakes of mica |
Bedfordshire | 1680–Abandoned by 1683, or possibly worked on until about 1750 | Gold |
| Pumpherston Oil Works The historic heart of Scotland's shale oil industry, and namesake of the standard Pumpherston retort design used across the whole trade |
West Lothian | 1883-84–1964 (refinery); early 1990s (detergent plant) | Oil Shale |
| Purbeck Marble Quarries Salisbury Cathedral alone used some 3,000 columns of it — cut from shafts sunk barely wider than a man |
Dorset | Worked since Roman times; medieval peak 12th-14th centuries–Commercial extraction ceased in the 1990s | Limestone |
| Raasay Iron Mine Some 260 German prisoners of war worked this mine from 1916, fenced off from the British and local miners beside them — and islanders' own accounts describe surprisingly little ill-feeling between the two |
Highland | Developed from 1913; production 1914-1919–1919 | Iron |
| Rampgill Mine At its early-20th-century peak, one purpose-built mill at one Alston Moor village was processing three-fifths of all the zinc ore raised anywhere in Britain — a striking concentration of a whole country's output into a single remote Pennine dale. |
Cumbria | 1690 (Rampgill Vein discovered)–1949 (Vieille Montagne); some later 20th-century working | Lead, Zinc |
| Reigate Caves Silver sand mines entered through doorways in the wall of Britain's oldest road tunnel |
Surrey | 18th century or earlier; Tunnel Road mines after 1823–early 20th century | Silver Sand |
| Rhosydd Quarry Rhosydd's workings reach so far underground that they meet the neighbouring Croesor quarry's own tunnels beneath the mountain — exploration reports describe a genuine underground 'through trip' between the two sites, a rare case of two historic Welsh slate mines still physically joined. |
Gwynedd | worked from 1840; Rhosydd Slate Company formed 1853–1930 (final reopening attempt failed 1948) | Slate |
| Roman Gravels Mine Roman Gravels earns its name honestly: 19th-century miners found genuine Roman-period tools, coins and a lead ingot within the workings, making this one of the few British mine sites where the name is excavated fact rather than folklore. |
Shropshire | worked in the Roman period (c. AD 120); medieval and post-medieval reworking; main phase from 1784–1895 | Lead |
| Rookhope (Boltsburn Mine) The most successful of the Weardale Lead Company's mines, made rich by a chance 1892 discovery, and served by a 3-mile aerial ropeway; its fluorite was pure enough to be sold to Zeiss for optics. |
County Durham | early 19th century–1931 | Lead, Fluorspar |
| Rosedale Ironstone Mines A remote moorland ironstone boom that swelled Rosedale's population fivefold |
North Yorkshire | 1857 (west side); 1859 (east side)–1929 (final closure; briefly reopened 1919-26) | Iron |
| Roughton Gill Mine Roughton Gill's mineral specimens are prized among collectors today for their striking secondary minerals — including linarite, mimetite and pyromorphite — a colourful legacy of the same rich copper- and lead-bearing ground that first drew German miners to the Caldbeck Fells in the 1560s. |
Cumbria | 12th century (earliest possible); documented from 1564–17th century (main German-era working); reworked later | Copper, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Lead |
| Rubislaw Quarry One of the biggest man-made holes in Europe; gave Aberdeen its nickname as the Granite City |
Aberdeenshire | 1740–1971 | Granite |
| Rutland Ironstone Quarries The largest walking dragline in the world finished here, then walked to Corby — over ten roads, a railway and the River Welland |
Rutland | 1882–1973 (last ore to Corby 1980) | Iron |
| Sallet Hole Mine Mixed lead/barytes/fluorspar mine near Stoney Middleton, worked from at least the 17th century, underground fluorspar production continued to 1998. |
Derbyshire | at least 17th century (as a sough)–1998 | Lead, Fluorspar |
| Sandlodge Mine Shetland's most productive metal mine; worked on and off for well over a century against constant flooding |
Shetland Islands | c. 1790 (copper discovered); early 19th century (serious shaft sinking)–1929 | Copper, Iron |
| Seaham Colliery A message scratched on a water bottle by a dying hewer in 1880 is the best-known thing ever written underground in County Durham. |
County Durham | Sinking begun 13 April 1849; production from 1853–54–1988 (merged with Vane Tempest, 1983) | Coal, Fireclay |
| Seathwaite Wad Mine Stealing graphite from this one Cumbrian fellside was made a felony by Act of Parliament in 1752 — the mineral was worth more than the miners. |
Cumbria | 15th century (earliest indirect evidence)–1891 | Graphite |
| Settlingstones Mine For nearly a century, one small Northumberland mine was the entire world's commercial supply of a mineral almost nowhere else on Earth. |
Northumberland | 1687–1969 | Witherite |
| Silver Gill Mine Few British mine sites carry an archaeological date as precise as Silver Gill's: excavation has pinned its earliest workings to 1020-1200, a rare case of a medieval mine dated by evidence rather than inference from documents. |
Cumbria | worked 1020-1200 (archaeologically dated); documented from 1331–worked into the Elizabethan period; final closure date unrecorded | Lead, Copper, Silver |
| Sir Francis Level (Lownathwaite Mine) Sir Francis Level holds a genuine claim to technological distinction: the compressed-air rock drills installed here in 1870 were the first ever used in a Yorkshire mine, and the underground hydraulic engine that survives from the same era of investment is thought to be one of very few of its kind left anywhere. |
North Yorkshire | 1864–1882 | Lead |
| Six Bells Colliery The worst British colliery disaster since the war, and the 20-metre miner that now stands where the shafts were |
Blaenau Gwent | Shafts sunk from 1892–1988 | Coal |
| Snaefell Mine The site of the Isle of Man's worst mining disaster in 1897 (20 dead) — and of a pumping waterwheel that was shipped to Cornwall when the mine closed in 1908, then brought back to the Island in 2003, nearly a century later. |
Isle of Man | 1856–1908 | Zinc, Lead, Silver |
| Snailbeach Mine Once one of the richest lead mines in Europe |
Shropshire | 1781–1955 | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar |
| Snibston Colliery Sunk by George and Robert Stephenson; its railway to the Leicester and Swannington line was one of Britain's earliest |
Leicestershire | 1832 (sinking); 1833 (production)–1983 | Coal |
| Snowdown Colliery Called Dante's Inferno by its own workforce: 38°C, 80 per cent humidity, and 24 pints of water a shift. |
Kent | Sinking from 1907; first coal 1912–1987 | Coal |
| South Caradon Mine South Caradon's origin story is a classic of Cornish mining lore: a syndicate of miners who couldn't persuade London investors to back them persevered for three years on their own before striking a lode so rich it turned their near-worthless shares into a fortune almost overnight. |
Cornwall | 1836 (main lode struck); trial working from 1833–1885 | Copper |
| South Crofty Last operating tin mine in Cornwall; repeated restart attempts since closure |
Cornwall | 1592–1998 | Tin, Copper |
| South Hooe Mine South Hooe's silver assay of up to 180 ounces to the ton was exceptional even by the standards of the silver-rich Tamar Valley mines — richer, ton for ton, than the silver return most other British lead mines could ever hope to match. |
Devon | 13th century–1885 | Lead, Silver |
| South Liberty Colliery The first pit sunk in the Bedminster coalfield and the last one left, 177 years later — pumped, it is said, by the same engine throughout |
Bristol | 1748–1925 | Coal |
| South Terras Mine Britain's only uranium and radium mine; supplied some of Marie Curie's earliest radium samples |
Cornwall | c. 1870 (iron); 1889 (uranium)–1930 (early 1930s, mine abandoned) | Uranium |
| Speedwell Cavern Speedwell has now been open to visitors, in one form or another, for far longer than it was ever worked as a lead mine — its failed investment paying off, in the end, as entertainment rather than ore. |
Derbyshire | 1771–1790 | Lead |
| Speedwell Colliery Worked for over two centuries — and so thoroughly redeveloped since that almost nothing of it can be seen today |
Bristol | Worked from the early 18th century–1936 | 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 |