Mines in Warwickshire

Warwickshire's Daw Mill Colliery, the only wholly new colliery sunk in the county after nationalisation, went on to become Britain's biggest coal producer, setting a new annual output record in 2008 before ending its life in 2013 in one of the worst underground fires in recent British mining history.

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MineWorkedCommodities
Alvecote Colliery 1875–1942 Coal
Ansley Hall Colliery 1874–1959 Coal
Arley Colliery 1901–30 March 1968 Coal
Baddesley Colliery From May 1850–1989 Coal
Birch Coppice Colliery c.1850–1986 Coal
Birchmoor Colliery 1860–1927 Coal
Charity Colliery 1776–13 September 1924 Coal, Ironstone
Coventry Colliery From 1911 (sinking)–1991 (reopened) Coal
Craven Colliery 18th century–1927 Coal
Daw Mill Colliery 1956 (sinking)–2013 Coal
Dexter Colliery 1927–1960 (coal) Coal
Exhall Colliery By 1894–130 Coal
Griff Colliery 1716–1960 Coal
Haunchwood Colliery 1855 (recorded working from 1729)–1967 Coal
Kingsbury Colliery 1897–1968 Coal
Midland Quarry from 1876 Diorite, Sandstone
Newdigate Colliery 1901–February 1982 Coal
Nuneaton Colliery 1877–1920 or 1922 Coal, Fireclay
Pooley Hall Colliery 1850–1965 Coal

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