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Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854
Name Parish From To Comments
Babes in Wood Dewsbury 1862 1887
Back Lane Clayton West, Huddersfield 1913 1915 Abandoned
Bagden Wood Clayton West, Huddersfield 1940 1955
Baildon Moor Baildon, Bradford 1855 1904 Abandoned June 1904.
Balaklava West Ardsley, Leeds 1860 1887
Balance Booth Hepworth, Holmfirth 1874 1875 Abandoned August 1891.
Ballifield Sheffield 1855 1860
Balm Wyke, Bradford 1881 1881
Balm Gate Roberttown, Liversedge 1873 1878 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Balne Lane Wakefield 1855 1857
Band Bed Drift Hazlehead, Holmfirth 1912 1935 Discontinued 1935
Bank Bottom Southowram, Halifax 1863 1875
Bank Bottom Whinmoor 1936 1967
Bank Bottom No.1 Silkstone, Barnsley 1942 1947 Discontinued 1947.
Bank Bottom No.3 Silkstone, Barnsley 1942 1950
Bank Bottom No.4 Silkstone, Barnsley 1942 1947
Bank Bottom No.5 Whinmoor 1947 1950
Bank House Dodworth, Barnsley 1905 1927 Abandoned 15/04/1927.
Bank Royd Denby Dale 1903 1939 May have been called Denby Dale before 1903 Fireclay, abandoned 25/09/1939.
Bank Top Halifax 1854 1854
Bank Top Worsborough Bridge, Barnsley. 1892 1899
Bankhouse Holmfirth, Huddersfield 1890 1892
Banks Halifax 1855 1869
Banks Hall Cawthorne 1953
Bankwell Todmorden 1899 1920 Near Portsmouth - shown, but not named, on the 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Standing 1921 to 1925
Baptist Hill Crigglestone, Wakefield 1923 1925 Abandoned 04/05/1925.
Barkers Wood Cawthorne 1929 1969 Abandoned December 1934. Reopened 1953 (= Banks Hall?) and closed c1969.
Barley Hall Thorpe Hesley, Rotherham 1886 1974 Sinking from 1886 to 1887. Closed May 1974).
Barnborough Main Barnburgh 1911 1989 Closed 26/05/1989.
Barnbow Barnbow, Leeds 1924 1930 Discontinued July 1930. Abandoned June 1931.
Barncliffe Hill Cumberworth, Huddersfield 1907 1912
Barnside Hepworth, Holmfirth 1855 1887
Barnside (a) Hepworth, Holmfirth 1854 1863
Barnsley Barnsley 1854 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Barnsley Main (a) Barnsley 1899 1966 On the site of Old Oaks. Closed in May 1966.
Barnsley Main (b) Barnsley 1985 1991 On the site of Old Oaks. Reopened in 1985 and closed 19/07/1991.
Barnsley Main (c) Barnsley 1899 1909 Shown on 1st edition OS 1/10560 sheet as 'Oaks', but called 'Barnsley Main' on the 1904 OS map. Abandoned in 1909.
Barrow Worsbrough Bridge, Barnsley 1873 1985 Closed 20/05/1985.
Barrowby Crossgates, Leeds 1938 1948 Closed December 1948, but briefly reopened soon after.
Barugh Barugh, Barnsley 1913 1918 Abandoned October 1921.
Barugh Lane Barugh Green, Barnsley 1924 1926 Abandoned 17/12/1926.
Barugh Opencast Barugh, Barnsley 1962 1967
Base Green Gleadless, Sheffield 1865 1869
Bassey Todmorden 1936 1938 Fireclay, abandoned June 1939.
Bateman Cleckheaton 1871 1884
Batley Batley, Dewsbury 1854 1929 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Abandoned January 1929
Baulk Farm Upper Cumberworth 1924 1925 Abandoned
Beacon Northowram, Halifax 1888 1938 Discontinued 1938. Abandoned March 1941.
Beacon Hill Southowram, Halifax 1879 1887
Beaumonts Shelf, Bradford 1897 1905 Abandoned September 18th 1905.
Beckett Street Potternewton, Leeds 1859 1880 Sinking 1873 to 1880. Closed 1860.
Beeley Wood Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1894 1911 Standing from 1905 to 1911. Continues as Beeley Wood No.1
Beeley Wood No.1 Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1913 1934 Standing 1905 to 1911. Discontinued August 1934 and abandoned March 1938.
Beeley Wood No.2 Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1913 1921 Standing 1914 to 1921
Beeley Wood No.3 Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1913 1928 Abandoned 16/01/ 1928.
Beeston (a) Beeston, Leeds 1861 1877
Beeston (b) Beeston, Leeds 1901 1919 Sinking in 1901. Called Beeston, Park from 1920 to 1928
Beeston (c) Beeston, Leeds 1856 1881
Beeston Hill Beeston, Leeds 1878 1881 Sinking from 1878 to 1880
Beeston Lodge Beeston, Leeds 1856 1869
Beeston Manor Churwell, Leeds 1854 1877 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. This colliery covered a wide area.
Beeston Road Beeston, Leeds 1870 1872
Beeston, Bye Pit Beeston, Leeds 1883 1897 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Beeston, Hall Beeston, Leeds 1898 1899
Beeston, Park Beeston, Leeds 1920 1928 Called 'Beeston' until 1919. Abandoned April 1928.
Beever Lane Gawber, Barnsley 1923 1949
Beever Lane Gawber, Barnsley 1919 1921 Abandoned December 1921.
Beevers Gawber, Barnsley 1888 1925 Abandoned 1908. Abandoned April 1914 and reopened 1923. Abandoned October 1925.
Beggarington Hartshead, Bradford 1864 1872
Beggar's Hill Holbeck, Leeds 1884 1891
Beighton Beighton, Sheffield 1867 1885
Beldon Brook Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1894 1899
Bell Ing Worsbrough Bridge, Barnsley 1855 1860
Bell String No.1 Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1935 1937 Abandoned April 1937
Bell String No.2 Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1937 1945 Mainly a Fireclay mine. Abandoned April 1945.
Bell String No.3 Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1937 1945 Mainly a Fireclay mine. Abandoned April 1945.
Bellamy Lane Worsboro' Bridge, Barnsley 1921 1922 Closed September 1922.
Bellarney Lane Barnsley 1856 1861
Belle Vue Darton, Barnsley 1873 1905 Abandoned in 1905
Ben Ing Pit Oakenshaw, Bradford 1896 1905
Bentley Bentley, Doncaster 1905 1993 Sinking from 1905 to 1908, production started in November 1908 and ended 03/12/1993.
Bentley Pit Wyke, Bradford 1891 1894
Berry Moor Thurgoland, Sheffield 1880 1925 Sinking from 1880 to 1881. Abandoned in 1909. Abandoned in 1913 and reopened in 1913. Abandoned July 1926.
Berry Moor Thurgoland, Sheffield 1861 1871
Better Bed Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1904 1905
Beulah Tong, Bradford 1910 1914
Beverley Armley, Leeds 1862 1872
Billingley Drift Darfield, Barnsley 1951 1956 Closed in July 1956.
Bimshaw Wood Barugh, Barnsley 1965 1967
Bimshaw Wood Drift Woolley Moor, Barnsley 1956 1960 May be the same mine as, or very near Woolley Edge
Bimshaw Wood No.1 Wakefield 1921 1927 Abandoned 18/03/1927.
Bimshaw Wood No.2 Wakefield 1923 1926 Abandoned December 1926.
Bimshaw Wood No.3 Wakefield 1923 1927 Abandoned 05/02/1927.
Bimshaw Wood No.4 Wakefield 1925 1927 Abandoned 18/03/1927.
Binns Bottom Southowram, Halifax 1854 1877
Birchen Lea Wilsden, Bradford 1942 1943 Abandoned 10/06/1943.
Birk Hill Birkenshaw, Bradford 1927 1930 Abandoned May 1930
Birkby Lane Bailiff Bridge, Bradford 1855 1883 Near Bailiff Bridge - sinking 1857.
Birkenshaw Hunsworth, Bradford 1910 1954 May be Birkenshaw Upper. Merged with Gomersal.
Birkenshaw (a) Birkenshaw, Bradford 1854 1887
Birkenshaw (b) Birkenshaw, Bradford 1854 1860
Birkenshaw (c) Birkenshaw, Bradford 1854 1855 See Birkhill
Birkenshaw Lower Birkenshaw, Bradford 1910 1953 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Birkhill Birkenshaw, Bradford 1856 1879 May have been Birkenshaw (c)
Birks Fireclay Thornton, Bradford 1886 1959 On 1933 edition 1/10560 sheet. Formerly called Clayton Fire Clay Works,
Birkshall Bowling, Bradford 1854 1864
Birksroyd Southowram, Halifax 1899 1907 J. Farrar; Farrar & Sons
Birley Beighton, Sheffield 1861 1872
Birley Gate Intake, Sheffield 1920 1921 Abandoned
Birley Vale Beighton, Sheffield 1925 1927 Pumping Station
Birley Vale Beighton, Sheffield 1861 1863
Birley West Beighton, Sheffield 1925 1932 Pumping Station. Abandoned 1932.
Birley, Beighton Pit Beighton, Sheffield 1907 1947 Sinking from 1902 to 1904. See Brookhouse 1948 to 1985.
Birley, East Woodhouse, Sheffield 1907 1988 Birley (East Pit) - 1947 Used by the NCB as a training centre. Used as a Pumping Station from 1977 to 1988.
Birstall Birstall, Dewsbury 1854 1860
Birstall Field Head Birstall, Dewsbury 1855 1857
Birtin Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1878 1905 Sometimes called Birkin, continues as Langhouse until 1920
Bishopside High & Low Bishopside, Pateley Bridge 1878 1899
Bitholmes Deepcar, Sheffield 1921 1932 Discontinued January 1932 and abandoned June 1933
Bitholmes No.1 Deepcar, Sheffield 1937 1937
Bitholmes No.2 Deepcar, Sheffield 1938 1938 Fireclay, Pot Clay, abandoned 31/10/1940.
Bitholmes Wood Deepcar, Sheffield 1932 1961 Abandoned 1932
Black Dike Lane Thornton, Bradford 1894 1942 Calvin Cockcroft 1894; Calvin Cockroft Ltd 1938-1942
Black Dyke Sledbrook, Huddersfield 1933 1937 Abandoned March 1937
Blacker Hall Crigglestone, Wakefield 1918 1929 Abandoned 16/05/1929. Winter seam abandoned in July 1926.
Blacker Main Barnsley 1856 1888
Blackey Farndale, Kirkby Moorside 1888 1889 Standing from 1891 to 1893.
Blackgates East Ardsley, Leeds 1874 1876 Sinking from 1874 to 1876.
Blackley & Woodman Elland, Halifax 1893 1925 Halifax Hard Bed abandoned 25/12/1921. Abandoned 1925
Blackley End Elland, Halifax 1861 1861
Blackton Cotherstone 1920 1927 Opening in 1920, not worked in 1926 and abandoned June 1927.
Blake Hill Idle, Bradford 1889 1902 Lupton & Myers
Blakeley Leeds 1866 1869
Bleaberry Burton-in-Lonsdale 1897 1945 Greta Bank Potteries. Standing from October 6th 1931. Abandoned January 1st 1935. Fireclay, Stone Clay, abandoned 20/03/1945, plan 13953.
Bloomhouse Darton, Barnsley 1927 1938
Bloomhouse Green Barnsley 1861 1878 Reopened in 1923
Blue Ball Rastrick, Brighouse 1887 1900 P. Normington & Co.
Blue Hill Wortley, Leeds 1907 1914 Abandoned September 1914
Blue Hill Lane Wortley, Leeds 1861 1889
Blue Hills Birkenshaw, Bradford 1873 1879
Blue Slates Cumberworth, Huddersfield 1919 1924 Abandoned 15/09/1924.
Blue Slates Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1893 1897
Bold Venture Delph, Saddleworth 1873 1873 Sinking
Bolton Bradford 1855 1860
Bolton Southowram, Halifax 1915 1922 Not worked in 1923.
Bolton Quarry Shipley, Bradford 1856 1858 Messrs Cousen
Bolton Wood Bradford 1856 1877
Booth Holme Birkenshaw, Bradford 1873 1897
Booth Holme Field Birkenshaw, Bradford 1868 1872
Booth Town Northowram, Halifax 1855 1860 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Boothroyd Rastrick, Brighouse 1898 1898 Exors. of H. Ormerod
Boothstead Denshaw, Oldham 1921 1947 Discontinued September 1929 and reopened in 1937.
Boro' Barnsley 1917 1935 Abandoned May 1935
Bottom Boat Stanley, Wakefield 1854 1881 Aberford Road
Bowling Bradford 1854 1883
Bowling (a) Bradford 1861 1880
Bowling (b) Bradford 1861 1880
Bowling (c) Bradford 1862 1881
Bowling Old Lane Bowling, Bradford 1855 1860
Box Ings Huddersfield 1855 1903
Boyn Hill Chapelthorpe, Wakefield 1855 1863 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Bracken Moor Deepcar, Sheffield 1905 1924 Discontinued 1924 to 1926.
Bracken Moor Deepcar, Sheffield 1865 1875
Bracken Moor (a) Deepcar, Sheffield 1873 1892 Sinking from 1873 to 1877.
Brackens Lane End Shelf, Bradford 1864 1877
Bradford Bowling, Bradford 1861 1883
Bradford (a) Bowling, Bradford 1881 1883
Bradford Moor Bradford 1854 1860 This may also be the highest of the three Bunkers Hill Collieries.
Bradford Moor (a) Bradford 1878 1880
Bradford Moor (b) Bradford 1854 1877
Bradford Road Huddersfield 1921 1923
Bradgate Rotherham 1917 1919
Bradley (a) Bradley, Huddersfield 1854 1877 May have become Bradley Wood.
Bradley (b) Bradleys Both, Skipton 1873 1893 Sinking from 1875 to 1878.
Bradley Lane Huddersfield 1912 1917 Abandoned 1917
Bradley Mills Huddersfield 1893 1897
Bradley Wood Huddersfield 1878 1880 May be Bradley (a)
Bradshaw (a) Ovenden, Halifax 1855 1860
Bradshaw (b) Ovenden, Halifax 1855 1869
Bradshaw Lane Ovenden, Halifax 1861 1872 In the Soil Hill area
Bradshaw Lane Bradford 1854 1854
Bramley Hall Handsworth, Sheffield 1929 1947 Abandoned 28/02/1927. Reopened in 1929. Abandoned from October 1938 to 1946
Bramley Hall No.2 Handsworth, Sheffield 1938 1945
Brampton Barnsley 1854 1864
Bramston Street Brighouse 1897 1900 S. Cliffe & Son
Bramwyn Calder Grove 1946 1951 Opened in 1946 and closed in 1951.
Bramwyn No.2 Crigglestone, Wakefield 1953 1954
Branch End Gildersome, Leeds 1916 1918 Abandoned 1918.
Branch End No.2 Gildersome, Leeds 1919 1923
Branch End No.3 Gildersome, Leeds 1924 1925 Abandoned 1926
Branch End No.4 Gildersome, Leeds 1924 1925
Branch End No.5 Gildersome, Leeds 1924 1927 Abandoned 01/07/1927.
Brandy Carr Wakefield 1921 1921 Abandoned October 24th 1921.
Braygill Hawes 1899 1902 Standing
Breakneck Northowram, Halifax 1888 1910 Standing 1905 to 1910. Plan No.5601 - 36 Yard Band abandoned December 31st 1910.
Breaks Clayton, Bradford 1891 1893 J. Murgatroyd & Sons
Brearcliffe Wyke, Bradford 1921 1921 Abandoned July 1921.
Breley Wood Sheffield 1897 1899
Bretton Wakefield 1854 1876
Bretton West Wakefield 1921 1925 Abandoned 03/09/1925.
Brice Hill Calder Grove 1929 1931 Discontinued June 1931. Abandoned July 1932
Brick Clay Quarry Mirfield, Dewsbury 1965 1980
Brick Lane Bradford 1855 1858
Brick Wall Adwalton, Leeds 1859 1867
Brickfield Wortley, Leeds 1888 1888
Brickfield Old Sharlston 1916 1916 Open 1916 and abandoned 13/11/1916
Brickfield Main Sharlston Common 1918 1919 Abandoned 1919
Brickworks Holmfirth, Huddersfield 1864 1873
Brickyard Wortley, Leeds 1892 1893
Bridge Oakenshaw, Bradford 1901 1904
Bridge End Garsdale, Hawes 1903 1913
Bridge Pit Oakenshaw, Bradford 1901 1904 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Abandoned 1904.
Brier Birstall, Dewsbury 1921 1922 Abandoned June 1922.
Brier-Birstall Birstall, Dewsbury 1875 1882
Brierley Brierley, Sheffield 1910 1947 Sinking 1910 to 1912. Production ended on 01/01/1947 and it became a training mine.
Briery Wood Brockholes, Holmfirth 1912 1917
Briestfield Thornhill Edge, Dewsbury 1920 1925 Abandoned May 1925.
Briestfield Thornhill Edge, Dewsbury 1855 1883 Standing from 1865 to 1880.
Brigg Boyd Halifax 1893 1899
Briggs Farnley, Leeds 1878 1903
Brightside Sheffield 1855 1871
Brightside (a) Sheffield 1869 1886
Britannia Main Adwalton, Leeds 1858 1885
British Oak Netherton, Wakefield 1916 1925 Abandoned 09/06/1925.
Broad Fold Clayton, Bradford 1891 1898 R. Foulds
Broad Oak Brighouse 1856 1866 A group of mines. Charles Sheffield, later Thomas Sheffield
Broad Oak Brighouse 1862 1866 A group of mines. Bates & Greenwood; Farrar & Sons 1863
Broad Oak Brighouse 1862 1866 A group of mines. William Sutcliffe; Naylor & Goodyear 1863
Broad Oak Brighouse 1866 1894 A group of mines. Henry Westwood
Broad Oak (b) Hipperholme, Halifax 1881 1881
Broadhead Stannington, Sheffield 1913 1945
Broadhead & Broadhead Flatt Stannington, Sheffield 1947 1961 Discontinued temporarily from 1947 to 1961.
Broadhead Flatt Stannington, Sheffield 1925 1945
Broadroyd Crigglestone, Wakefield 1875 1876
Brockholes Huddersfield 1855 1881
Brockholes Lane Huddersfield 1855 1860
Brodsworth Main Brodsworth, Doncaster 1905 1990 Sinking of two of the three shafts began 23/11/1905 to 1907. A third shaft was sunk in 1922 and the original shafts were deepened in the 1920s. Closed 07/09/1990.
Bromley Farm Cumberworth, Huddersfield 1907 1910 Abandoned
Bromley Fireclay Denby Dale 1896 1956
Bromley Main Sheffield 1873 1887 Sinking from 1873 to 1877.
Brook House Gomersal 1863 1871
Brookhouse Beighton, Sheffield 1929 1985 Sunk 1929 to 1930. Called Birley, Beighton Pit before 1948. Closed 25/10/1985).
Brookroyd Brookroyd 1908 1910 Abandoned 1910. Discontinued February 1931.
Brookside Stannington, Sheffield 1901 1931 Discontinued February 1931.
Broom Hall Bradford 1861 1880
Broomfield Lepton, Huddersfield 1952 1953
Broomhall Bradford 1855 1860
Broomhill Leeds 1879 1879
Broomhill Bradford 1879 1879
Brow Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1930 1938 Brookes Ltd
Brow Field Clayton West, Huddersfield 1915 1922 Closed 1922
Brow Pit (Bussey) Boothtown, Halifax 1904 Sunk in 1904.
Brown Hill Birstal, Batley 1893 1894
Brown Moor Manston, Leeds 1854 1882 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Brown Royd Kilner Bank, Huddersfield 1907 1936 Standing 1907 to 1913 and abandoned in 1914. Reopened in 1934 and discontinued December 1936. Fireclay, abandoned 19/07/1907, plan 6424. Also Fireclay, Thin, abandoned 02/07/1940, plan 12745.
Brownend Southowram, Halifax 1878 1880
Bruntcliffe Morley, Leeds 1888 1904 See Victoria
Bruntcliffe Hill Morley, Leeds 1877 1880 Sinking from 1877 to 1880.
Bullcliffe Netherton, Wakefield 1873 1876 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Bullcliffe Old Lane Bretton West 1925 1947 The original drift was closed and sealed off and two new ones were driven in 1956. Became Bullcliffe Wood in 1948
Bullcliffe Wood Bretton West 1948 1985 Called Bullcliffe Old Lane from 1925 to 1947. Closed 30/08/1985. Merged with the Calder Drift and Caphouse/Denby Grange in September 1985 - and then called Denby Grange.
Bullcroft Main Carcroft, Doncaster 1908 1970 Began sinking in November 1909 and reached the Barnsley Seam in December 1911. Shaft riding switched to Brodsworth from 28/09/1970.
Bullhouse Penistone 1855 1916
Bullhouse (School Wells
Drift) and Bradshaw Quarry
Penistone 1948 1962 See School Wells Drift (SE213026) from 1914 to 1947 - it closed in 1957
Bunkers Hill Bradford 1953 1961 Three mines at: SE17613341; SE17843351 & SE18063369 - the last may also be Bradford Moor.
Bunkers Hill (a) Whitley, Dewsbury 1862 1873
Bunkers Hill (b) Bradford 1855 1881 Ironstone, abandoned prior to 08/11/1882, plan 1430.
Burcroft Farm Opencast Crofton, Wakefield 1953 1961
Burmantofts Burmantofts, Leeds 1869 1868 See Rock
Burtersett Hawes 1882 1926 Standing
Burton Bank Barnsley 1856 1860
Burton Royd Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1916 1923 Standing 1923 to 1925.
Bushcliffe Woolley, Barnsley 1923 1928 Sinking in 1922. Discontinued December 1928 and abandoned in 1930.
Bushey Drighlington, Leeds 1868 1893
Busk Wortley, Leeds 1884 1905
Busk (a) Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1901 1903
Busk Clay Highburton 1936 1942 Discontinued February 1941. Abandoned December 1942.
Busk Flatt (a) Sheffield 1874 1887 Sinking from 1874 to 1887.
Busk Flatt (b) Sheffield 1885 1887 Sinking in 1885.
Butt Croft Denby Dale 1936 1937 Fireclay, abandoned 04/11/1936, plan 12035. Abandoned May 1937
Buttershaw Bradford 1921 1922 Abandoned
Butterthwaite Ecclesfleld, Sheffield 1873 1884 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Butterthwaite Ecclesfleld, Sheffield 1855 1862


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