Mines in West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire's Caphouse Colliery, sunk in the 1770s or 1780s, has a shaft that is quite possibly the oldest still in everyday use anywhere in Britain — though today that use is as the National Coal Mining Museum for England rather than as a working pit.

Part of Yorkshire.

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Mine	Worked	Commodities
Ackton Hall Colliery	From 1873–1985	Coal
Allerton Bywater Colliery	1875–1992	Coal
Altofts Colliery	1851–7 October 1966	Coal
Barnbow Pit	June 1925–30 June 1930	Coal
Bentley Grange Ironstone Pits	Late 12th century–By mid-15th century	Ironstone
Booth Town Pit	By 1841–1860 or 1875	Coal
Bramley Fall Quarry	From the 12th century–c.1930	Sandstone
Brown Top Pit	from By 1841	Coal
Bullcliffe Wood Colliery	1927–30 August 1985	Coal
Caphouse Colliery	1770s-1780s–1985	Coal
Combs Colliery	—	Coal
Crigglestone Colliery	from 1889	Coal
Denby Grange Colliery	c. 1790–1991	Coal
Duke Wood Colliery	from c. 1862–1863	Coal
East Ardsley Colliery	1872 or 1876 (sources differ)–1966 or January 1968 (sources differ)	Coal, Ironstone
Featherstone Main Colliery	1868–1935	Coal
Flockton Collieries	1515–1894	Coal, Ironstone
Fryston Colliery	1870s–1985	Coal
Glasshoughton Colliery	1865 (sinking)–March 1986	Coal
Gomersal Colliery	1916–June 1973	Coal
Grange Ash Colliery	1871–1966	Coal
Heaton Colliery	from From 1855	Coal, Fireclay
Hemsworth Colliery	1876–1880 (sinking)–July 1967 (merged into South Kirkby)	Coal
Hostingley Colliery	to 1880	Coal
Ingham Colliery	1875 (sinking)–1948	Coal
Isabella Pit, Garforth	1833–1925	Coal
Kinsley Drift	1978–July 1986	Coal
Ledston Luck Colliery	From 1909–October 1986	Coal
Lofthouse Colliery	1873-1877–1981	Coal
Methley Junction Colliery	1845 (sinking)–1903	Coal
Morley Main Colliery	Mid-1850s–1909	Coal
New Monckton Colliery	1874–3 December 1966	Coal
Newmarket Colliery	By 1775 (sunk anew 1837)–1983	Coal
Newmillerdam Colliery	1929–1981	Coal
Northcliffe Colliery	By the 1840s–By 1880	Coal, Fireclay
Nostell Colliery	1860–1987	Coal
Peckfield Colliery	1874–1980	Coal
Robin Hood Colliery	1854–1960s	Coal
Rothwell Haigh Colliery	pre-1797–9 December 1983	Coal
Savile Colliery	1874–1985	Coal
Sharlston Colliery	1858–July 1993	Coal
Shuttle Eye Colliery	1862–1973	Coal
Sisters Pit, Garforth	1843–1922	Coal
Snydale Colliery	From 1863–August 1965	Coal
Soothill Wood Colliery	1873 (sinking)–September 1927	Coal
Toftshaw Moor Colliery	1913–August 1950	Coal
Trench Pit, Garforth	1899 (sunk)–1930	Coal
Upton Colliery	1927–1964	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Bruntcliffe	from About 1852	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Stanley	1840 (Silkstone Pit)–1922	Coal
Walton Colliery	1890 (shafts sunk)–3 December 1979	Coal
Water Haigh Colliery	1908 (sinking)–1970	Coal
Wheldale Colliery	1868 (sinking)–October 1987	Coal
Whitwood Colliery	1871-1878 (sinking)–About 1970	Coal
Windy Bank Pit	from By 1841	Coal