MineArchiveAll mines (page 7 of 7)
Mines 601–621 of 621, A–Z (page 7 of 7).
| Mine | Region | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Winsford Rock Salt Mine Europe's largest operating salt mine |
Cheshire | from 1844 | Salt |
| 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 |
| Wolstanton Colliery For a time, this was the deepest hole miners anywhere in western Europe went to work down every day — 1,140 yards, achieved not by sinking one heroic shaft but by quietly merging three separate collieries into one underground system. |
Staffordshire | 1920–1986 | Coal |
| Woodhead Mine Woodhead was a genuine one-man operation on an industrial scale: Colonel Cathcart didn't just finance the mine, he built an entire village around it, complete with a school and library, for a workforce of over 300 people. |
Dumfries and Galloway | 1838–1873 | Lead, Silver |
| Woodhorn Colliery The pit is now the county archive: eight hundred years of Northumberland records kept in the buildings its winding engines stood in. |
Northumberland | Sinking from 1894–1981 | Coal |
| Woolley Colliery Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader who came to define British industrial politics in the 1980s, started out here as an ordinary young miner in 1953, at a pit by most accounts far from militant. |
South Yorkshire | Established 1869–1987 | Coal |
| Woolmet Colliery The tower house that gave the estate its name didn't survive the colliery that replaced it: undermined by Woolmet's own workings, Woolmet House came down in 1954, decades before the pit itself closed. |
Midlothian | sunk 1898 (Gazetteer for Scotland) or 1904 (RAILSCOT) by the Niddrie and Benhar Coal Company–1966 | Coal |
| Wren's Nest Limestone Mines Reached by nearly 3km of canal tunnel; still explored today by boat through the Dudley Canal Trust's underground tours |
West Midlands | 1780s (Castle Hill); c. 1805 (Wren's Nest tunnel)–1920 (mining); 1925 (quarrying) | Limestone |
| Writhlington Colliery Waste rock dumped at the pit head turned out, decades after the colliery closed, to hold the oldest damselfly fossil ever found anywhere in the world. |
Somerset | Working by 1829–September 1973 | Coal |
| Wroxton and Adderbury Ironstone Workings Opened not by ordinary industrial demand but on the direct instruction of the wartime Ministry of Munitions, which needed more British iron ore than the existing fields could supply |
Oxfordshire | Adderbury workings from 1859; Wroxton quarry from 1917–1967 | Iron |
| Wrysgan Quarry A workforce that once produced 3,000 tons of slate a year in 1904 had shrunk to just eleven men by the mid-1940s, still working the same underground levels for a fraction of the output — the quarry didn't fail suddenly, it simply wound down to almost nothing before finally stopping. |
Gwynedd | 1830s–1946 | Slate |
| Wyndham Western Colliery Wyndham introduced South Wales's first miners' canteen offering a full hot meal service in 1942, and, in 1930, a system recording the colliery manager's own voice to warn men of hazards as their cage descended — modest, human-scaled innovations from a colliery whose Western half began with five men dying in a sinking explosion sixty years earlier. |
Bridgend | Wyndham: sinking from 1865, shafts to Six-Feet seam completed 1868. Western: sunk 1873-75–January 1984 | Coal |
| Yate Celestine Mines Ninety-five per cent of the world's celestine came out of these fields — and it was dug by farm labourers in the slack season |
South Gloucestershire | 1880s–1994 | Celestine |
| Yesnaby Quarries A tsunami from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake reached this clifftop and nearly wrecked the quarry — and two centuries later the islanders themselves stopped a uranium mine here |
Orkney | Millstone quarrying from an unknown early date, continuing to the Second World War–Quarrying declined after the Second World War | Freestone |
| Yorkshire Main Colliery The colliery was renamed from 'Edlington Main' to 'Yorkshire Main' while still being sunk — a rebrand that stuck for the next seventy-four years. |
South Yorkshire | Sinking began 1909; opened 1913–11 October 1985 | Coal |
| Ystrad Einion Mine Small lead, copper and zinc mine in Cwm Einion, worked intermittently from the 18th century to 1903; retains a rare surviving underground waterwheel. |
Ceredigion | 18th century–1903 | Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc |