Governor and Company of Copper Miners in England

The chartered company which owned the copper and tinplate works at Cwmavon in the Afan valley and the five collieries, Ynisdavid among them, worked to fuel them. Its successors were trading as the English Copper Company by the later 1870s.

Mines operated

MineRegionYears
Cwmmawr Colliery Neath Port Talbot 1869–1880
Wern Colliery, Cwmafan Neath Port Talbot ?–?
Ynisdavid Colliery Neath Port Talbot 1850–1872
Ynys Dafydd Colliery Neath Port Talbot ?–?

Record created: 4 September 2026 · Last researched: 4 September 2026

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