Nixon's Navigation Coal Co. Ltd.

The company founded on John Nixon's Mountain Ash workings. Nixon, born at Barlow in County Durham in 1815, began as a workman on the Durham coalfield, surveyed for the Marquis of Bute around Merthyr, and made his money selling Welsh steam coal to the French — which financed the lease of the Mountain Ash mineral rights. By 1896 the company employed 1,558 men here and the Nixon group's output was about 1,250,000 tons a year.

Mines operated

Mine	Region	Years
Cwm Cynon Colliery	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1889–1929
Deep Duffryn Colliery	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1856–1928
Glyngwyn Colliery	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1885–1925
Nixon's Navigation Colliery	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1855–1940

Record created: 3 September 2026 · Last researched: 3 September 2026