Cannel
A type of bituminous coal.
New Manchester
A formerly isolated mining community at the extreme eastern end of the Tyldesley township.
Starvationer
Redirected to Mine boat.
Worsley dry docks
The earliest extant example of dry docks on Britain’s canals.
Mine boat
Boats built to transport coal from the Duke of Bridgewater’s pits in Worsley
Bridgewater Collieries
A coal mining company on the Lancashire Coalfield with headquarters in Walkden near Manchester.
Chaddock Pit
Pit sunk around 1820 by the Bridgewater Trustees that was connected to the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown Basin by an underground canal.
Forest of Dean Coalfield
The Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire contains one of the smaller coalfields in the British Isles which for hundreds of years was regulated by a system of freemining.
Worsley Navigable Levels
An extensive network of underground canals that drained the Duke of Bridgewater’s coal pits emerge into the open at the Delph in Worsley, Greater Manchester.
Ellesmere Colliery
Ellesmere Colliery in Walkden, on the Lancashire Coalfield, was sunk in 1865 by the Bridgewater Trustees. Production ended in 1923.