Coal mining (84 pages found in this category)


Bridgewater Collieries

Coal mining company on the Lancashire Coalfield with headquarters in Walkden near Manchester.

Burning wells

Phenomenon known in the area around Wigan in Lancashire from at least the 17th century.

Burnley Coalfield

Most northerly portion of the Lancashire Coalfield, surrounding Burnley, Nelson, Blackburn and Accrington.

Cannel

Type of bituminous coal.

Caphouse Colliery

Ex-colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

Chaddock Pit

Pit sunk in about 1820 by the Bridgewater Trustees that was connected to the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown Basin by an underground canal.

Chanters Colliery

Former colliery in Hindsford, Atherton where coal was mined from 1854 until 1966.

Cleworth Hall Colliery

Cleworth Hall Colliery on the Lancashire Coalfield operated between 1880 and 1963 in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England.

Clifton & Kersley Coal Company

Coal mining company that operated on the south side of the Irwell Valley on the Lancashire Coalfields.

Coal mining terms

This is a partial glossary of common coal mining terms used in the United Kingdom. Some words were in use throughout the coalfields, some are historic and others are local to the different British coalfields.