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Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854
Name Parish From To Comments
Hadley House Silkstone Common, Barnsley 1921 1922
Hagg Stones Worrall, Sheffield 1910 1938 New opening. Closed from 1918 to 1937.
Hagg Wood Dewsbury 1868 1877
Haigh Haigh, Barnsley 1862 1968 Closed on 09/08/1968.
Haigh (a) Haigh, Barnsley 1888 1897
Haigh Moor High Hazels, Sheffield 1942 1945 Abandoned October 1945.
Haigh Moor (a) Normanton 1861 1887
Haighenfield Loxley, Sheffield 1903 1905 Standing 1904 to 1905
Hall Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1894 1897
Hall Beeston, Leeds 1879 1894
Hall Broom Bradfield, Sheffield 1928 1928 Pot Clay, Black or Stannington Pot Clay, abandoned 01/10/1928, plan 9643.
Hall Broom No.2 Bradfield, Sheffield 1929 1964 Fireclay, abandoned 30/09/1964, plan 15220.
Hall Park Stannington, Sheffield 1874 1881 Sinking from 1874 to 1878.
Hall Royd Silkstone Common, Barnsley 1861 1928 Not liseted from 1909 to 1926. Abandoned 1928.
Halton Halton, Leeds 1925 1938 Not worked in 1922. Abandoned February 1938.
Hand Lane Crane Moor, Sheffield 1903 1907 Abandoned
Handbank Penistone 1898 1931
Handsworth Handsworth, Sheffield 1971 1988 Handsworth Pit sunk in 1903. Closed at the end of October 1967. Used as a Pumping Station between 1971 and 1988. Part of Nunnery Colliery. Called High Hazels No.2 in 1947.
Handsworth Handsworth, Sheffield 1903 1967 Handsworth Pit sunk in 1903. Closed at the end of October 1967. Used as a Pumping Station between 1971 and 1988. Part of Nunnery Colliery. Called High Hazels No.2 in 1947.
Handsworth Handsworth, Sheffield 1854 1871 Not listed between 1855 and 1864.
Handsworth Woodhouse Handsworth, Sheffield 1854 1854
Happy Valley Opencast Lepton, Huddersfield 1956 1959
Harboro Hills Barnsley 1905 1907
Hare Park Liversedge, Dewsbury 1904 1910
Hare Park (b) Liversedge, Dewsbury 1907 1908
Harehills Harehills, Leeds 1866 1920 Not listed from 1878 to 1896. Flooded in 1920 and abandoned August 16th 1921.
Harley Head Brighouse 1885 1928 J. Brooke & Sons; Brookes Ltd 1923 onwards. 29 years. Listing begins 1900. Not listed 1905-1922 (in abeyance?). Abandoned August 1928. Not more than 33 men employed. Plans not available. Shaft site and stone faces shown on Yew Tree plans (see below).
Harp Bottom (a) Queensbury, Bradford 1854 1860
Harp Bottom (b) Queensbury, Halifax 1854 1879
Harrop Edge Bradford 1871 1872
Hart Hill Gildersome, Leeds 1917 1920
Harthill Gildersome, Leeds 1901 1903
Hartley Bank Netherton, Wakefield 1872 1968 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Opened in 1873 and closed in February 1968.
Hartley Bank No.2 Netherton, Wakefield 1881 Sunk 1881.
Hartshead Normanton 1854 1854
Hartshead (a) Hartshead, Bradford 1861 1935 Not listed from 1878 to 1885. Discontinued November 1935
Hartshead (b) Normanton 1882 1887
Hartshead Moor Bottom (a) Dewsbury 1854 1857
Hartshead Moor Bottom (b) Dewsbury 1854 1867
Hartshead Moor Bottom (c) Dewsbury 1854 1854
Hartshead No.2 Hartshead, Bradford 1925 1928 Abandoned November 1928.
Hartshead Pit (Clifton) Liversedge, Dewsbury 1947 1949 Hartshead Pit sunk 1882 to 1884.
Hatfield Main Stainforth, Doncaster 1912 Sinking from 1912 to 1916. Closed on 03/12/1993 but reopened and worked as a private mine in early 1994. Closed 30/01/2004. (NB Linked underground to Thorne which was in mothballs). Reopened - still working.
Havercroft Main Wakefield 1876 1891 Sinking from 1876 to 1877.
Haw Park Shaft Cold Hiendley 1983 1988 Pumping Station - Part of Sharlston West otherwise Crofton
Hay Royds Clayton West, Huddersfield 1948 2012 An earlier site at SE24780950 - see also Bagden Wood. Closed in August 2012.
Haycliffe Hilt Wibsey, Bradford 1868 1872
Haywood Deepcar, Sheffield 1864 1872
Hazelhirst Northowram, Halifax 1897 1900 S. Parkinson
Hazlehead Hazlehead, Holmfirth 1884 1948 Sinking from 1884 to 1887. Not listed from 1888 to 1893. Closed February 1948.
Headland Dewsbury 1855 1860
Headley Bradford 1854 1860
Headley (a) Bradford 1854 1854
Healy Lane Ossett, Wakefield 1876 1889 Healey Lane? Sinking from 1876 to 1877. See Heeley Lane from 1890.
Heaton Shipley, Bradford 1854 1887
Heaton Heaton, Bradford 1900 1900 E. Tetley
Heaton (a) Shipley, Bradford 1863 1883
Heaton Croft Wortley, Leeds 1887 1887 May be part of Blue Hill Lane.
Heaton Hall Huddersfield 1884 1893 Sinking from 1884 to 1887
Heaton Hall Quarry Bradley, Huddersfield 1949 1955
Heaton Park Bradford 1897 1899 R. Roper
Heator Bottom Cumberworth, Huddersfield 1919 1920 Abandoned
Heckmondwike (a) Dewsbury 1854 1871
Heckmondwike (c) Dewsbury 1854 1858
Heckmondwike (e) Dewsbury 1854 1854
Heeley Briestfield, Dewsbury 1865 1878
Heeley Lane Ossett, Wakefield 1890 1899 #NAME?
Helm Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1854 1922 Abandoned 30/06/1922.
Hemingfield Elsecar, Barnsley 1925 1988
Hemingfield Hemingfield 1930 1958 Discontinued 1940. John Threlkeld - PITS A Pictorial History of Mining - Sunk 1930, a drift opened in 1944 and closed 1958. Sometimes called "Gedney's" after its owner.
Hemingfield Elsecar, Barnsley 1882 1920 Abandoned in May 1920
Hemsworth Fitzwilliam, Pontefract 1888 1967 NB Called Fitzwilliam Main from 1876 to 1887. Hemsworth merged with South Kirkby in July 1967.
Henholmes Deepcar, Sheffield 1864 1913 Standing 1903 to 1909. See Deepcar & Henholmes from 1918 to 1939.
Hepshaw Holmfirth, Huddersfield 1864 1893
Hepworth Holmfirth, Huddersfield 1856 1894
Herley Lane Dewsbury 1854 1854
Hermit Hill Pilley 1916 1924 Ventilation Shaft to Whinmoor in 1923 and 1924.
Heywood Deepcar, Sheffield 1873 1874
Heywood Bottom Denby Dale 1918 1919 Abandoned 1919.
Hickleton Main Thurnscoe, Doncaster 1892 1985 No.3 Shaft sunk to Barnsley between December 1892 and 28/06/1894 and below the Silkstone from 1921 to 1923. Put on a develpoment only basis in March 1985. Merged with Goldthorpe on 01/01/1986 and went onto care and maintenance in late 1987.
High Bank Shipley, Bradford 1865 1868
High Cotes Farm Wilsden, Bradford 1926 1926 Sinking
High Elsecar Elsecar, Barnsley 1878 1889
High Field Southowram, Halifax 1855 1860
High Green Sheffield 1854 1861
High Hamble Darnall, Sheffield 1908 Abandoned
High Hazels Sheffield 1894 1925 Abandoned 1907 to 1909. Discontinued 12/09/1925.
High Hazels No.2 Darnall, Sheffield 1940 1947 No.3 Pit sunk 1901. Renamed as Handsworth 1948 to 1966.
High Matlock Stannington, Sheffield 1910 1912 High Matlock - Ganister, abandoned 30/11/1912, plan 6038.
High Moor Killamarsh 1987 1989 In April 1987 High Moor Drift became part of the South Yorkshire area.
High Moor Lane Clifton, Brighouse 1878 1924 Closed in 1925?
High Moor Lane Pit Hartshead, Bradford 1875 1924 Sunk c1865?
High Park Bradley, Huddersfield 1875 1892
High Royd Upper Hoyland 1855 1864 See Huth Royd.
High Royd & Elsecar Upper Hoyland 1865 1876
High Stile Barnsley 1870 1878
High Thorn Allerton, Bradford 1864 1867 Midgley & Midgley; Southwart & others 1865. Shackleton and others, 1867 onwards
High Wincobank Wincobank, Sheffield 1911 1912 Abandoned
High Wincobank Wincobank, Sheffield 1901 1902 Not working in 1902.
High Wood Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
High Wood Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1916 1916 See Green House & High Wood from 1917
Higham Higham 1900 1988 Used as a Pumping Station from 1900 to 1945 and 1986 to 1988. New Furnace Shaft = Higham Shaft
Higham Higham 1854 1899 15/02/1860 - explosion killed 13. Not listed from 1870 to 1887 and standing 1897 to 1900.
Highfield Southowram, Halifax 1861 1877 Plan No.740 - Halifax Hard & Soft Beds abandoned March 25th 1878.
Highfield Drighlington, Leeds 1921 1944 Abandoned in 1922 and again in October 1944.
Highgate Highgate, Doncaster 1916 1968 Shafts sunk in 1916 and replaced by drifts in 1948 which were used for output until 1966 when it was linked underground with Goldthorpe and output surfaced at Goldthorpe. Merged with Goldthorpe in March 1968.
Highwood Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1927 1927 Abandoned 11/02/1927.
Hill Crest Brighouse 1911 1929 I.R. Oates
Hill End Armley, Leeds 1891 1893
Hill Pit Hunsworth, Bradford 1872 1887 Not listed from 1873 to 1883.
Hill Pit Oakenshaw, Bradford 1884 1891 201 ft to Black Bed and 301 ft to Better Bed.
Hill Top Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1881 1885 S. Crowther & Sons
Hill Top Queensbury, Bradford 1889 1891 Ellis Robinson
Hill Top (b) Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1876 1885 Bentley & Butterfield; W. H. Bentley 1881. This mine leased to Gomersall, Bentley and Butterfield in 1876. Partnership dissolved October 1878. However, mine plan suggests workings in 1875.
Hill Top (e) Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1878 1891 Ledgard Naylor
Hill Top (h) Stannington, Sheffield 1907 1917
Hill Top (j) Stannington, Sheffield 1927 1929 Discontinued 1927. Fireclay, Middle Bed, abandoned 24/11/1929, plan 10044.
Hill Top (k) Kimberworth 1934 1936 Abandoned February 1936
Hill Top (l) Muker 1934 1936 Abandoned December 1936.
Hillcrest Brighouse 1911 1930 I.R. Oates. 20 years Listing begins 1911; worked continuously from 1912 until abandonment in 1930. A small mine with not more than 8 men. Plans not available.
Hilltop West Ardsley, Leeds 1907 1912
Hodroyd Havercroft, Barnsley 1870 1922 Abandoned May 1922.
Hodroyd New Grimethorpe 1915 1918 Sinking from 1915 to 1916
Holbeck Leeds 1861 1877
Holbrook Killamarsh 1916 1943 Part of Norwood Colliery?
Hole Bottom Queensbury, Bradford 1878 1911 Abandoned
Hollin Dyke Southowram, Halifax 1902 1903 Sykes & Co
Hollin Heys Huddersfield 1855 1863
Hollin House New Mill, Huddersfield 1866 1887 Reopened in 1924. Abandoned 31/10/1924.
Hollin Wood Thurlstone, Penistone 1894 1899
Hollinghall Lane Crigglestone, Wakefield 1921 1922 Abandoned April 1922.
Hollinghouse (a) Clayton West, Huddersfield 1861 1883
Hollinghouse (b) Huddersfield 1863 1869
Hollinghouse (c) Clayton West, Huddersfield 1879 1887
Hollinghouse Lane Bottom Huddersfield 1855 1860
Hollingthorpe Crigglestone, Wakefield 1864 1885 Sold by auction in 1860.
Hollingthorpe Main Crigglestone, Wakefield 1858 1867
Hollingwood Highburton 1921 1927 Closed. Abandoned 14/06/1927.
Hollingwood Penistone 1937 1941 Developing in 1937. Abandoned June 1941.
Hollins Stannington, Sheffield 1918 1920 Standing in 1920
Hollins End Tinsley, Sheffield 1872 1874
Hollins Grove Halifax 1897 1899 E. Tetley
Hollins Hall Quarry Elland, Halifax 1949 1951
Holly Denby Dale 1931 1959 Fireclay, abandoned 16/10/1959, plan 15177.
Holly Bush Bolsterstone, Sheffield 1873 1912
Holly Park Calverley, Leeds 1878 1890
Holme Bank Bradford 1858 1883
Holme Tong Bradford 1876 1883
Holmes Rotherham 1928 1932 Used as a Pumping Station from 1928 to 1932.
Holmes Rotherham 1858 1867 No.2 Shaft sunk 1857 to 1861.
Holmes Farm Bowling, Bradford 1910 1920
Holmfield Holmfield, Halifax 1911 1947 Worked as Holmfield & Howcans from 1915 to 1925. Discontinued July 1928 to 1937. Discontinued June 1947. Fireclay, Halifax Hard Bed, abandoned 12/12/1949, plan 14830.
Honey Well Barnsley 1854 1864 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Honley Huddersfield 1861 1862
Honley Wood Huddersfield 1854 1860
Hoober Wentworth 1953 1966 Called Cortworth in 1954
Hoober Opencast Wentworth 1955 1955
Hood Green Barnsley 1856 1860
Hookwell Leeds 1860 1860
Hope Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1907 1908
Hope Barnsley 1858 1860
Hope Flockton, Wakefield 1878 1887
Hope & Anchor Upper Denby 1893 1902
Hopewell Gildersome Street, Leeds 1861 1867
Hopton Mirfield, Dewsbury 1868 1881
Hopton Mills Mirfield, Dewsbury 1883 1933 Sinking from 1883 to 1887. Abandoned December 1933
Hopton Mills (Liley) Mirfield, Dewsbury 1935 1936 Abandoned June 1936
Hopton Mills (Slade) Mirfield, Dewsbury 1935 1935 Abandoned December 1935
Hor Ing Huddersfield 1854 1854
Horley Green Halifax 1892 1914 Standing 1904 to 1914. Included with Ellen Royd from 1915 to 1948.
Horse Riggs Adwalton, Leeds 1872 1944 Not listed from 1873 to 1884 and from 1886 to 1900. Abandoned August 1913. Reopened c1936 and Abandoned May 1944. Employment included with Horse Riggs No.2.
Horse Riggs No.2 Drighlington, Leeds 1943 1961 Opened c1944 and closed 1961.
Horsefield Opencast Lepton, Huddersfield 1955 1957
Horton Horton, Bradford 1855 1867
Horton (a) Horton, Bradford 1859 1867
Horton (b) Horton, Bradford 1861 1867
Horton (c) Horton, Bradford 1861 1867
Hostingley Thornhill, Dewsbury 1854 1883
Houghton Main Little Houghton 1873 1992 Sinking from 1873 to 1877 and closed 30/10/1992. From 1984 the lower seam output was conveyed underground and wound at Grimethorpe. Upper seam output (Dunsil) wound at Houghton No.1 Shaft. Called Houghton-Darfield 1987-1989 and Houghton 1990 to 1992.
Hound Hill No.1 Worsborough, Barnsley 1913 1929 Abandoned 01/03/1929. May be the same as Rob Royd Colliery.
Hound Hill No.2 Barnsley 1915 1927 Abandoned 13/08/1927.
Hound Hill No.3 Worsboro', Barnsley 1923 1925
Hounds Hill Barnsley 1878 1879
Housley Chapeltown 1907 1910
Hove Edge Delf Brighouse 1905 1907 C. Roper. On 1st edition OS Sheet.
How Royd Whitley Clough 1905 1941 Opened between 1903 and 1907. Closed from c1908 until 1929. Became Howroyd, Old - Abandoned May 1941.
Howcans Boothtown, Halifax 1878 1944 Plan No.4846 - 36 Yard Band abandoned July 1st 1905. Abandoned 1911. Worked with Holmfield from 1915 to 1925. Discontinued 1926. Not worked during 1931. Abandoned December 1933. Discontinued July 1944. Abandoned October 1947.
Howden Howden Gate, Keighley 1922 1932 Prospecting. Discontinued July 1932. Abandoned April 1933
Howden Clough Morley, Leeds 1861 1935 Discontinued June 1935 and abandoned May 1938.
Howden Clough (a) Morley, Leeds 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Howley Park Morley, Leeds 1855 1929 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Lease signed in 1849 and closed in 1928. Discontinued May 1929. Abandoned April 1930. Discontinued April 1936. Abandoned July 1937. Abandoned January 1941.
Howroyd Whitley Clough 1948 1962 Previously called Howroyd (New)
Howroyd Briestfield, Dewsbury 1873 1892 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Howroyd (New) Whitley Clough 1931 1947 Became Howroyd after Nationalisation. Closed in December 1962.
Hoyland Hoyland, Barnsley 1854 1854
Hoyland and Elsecar Hoyland, Barnsley 1855 1872
Hoyland New Silkstone Hoyland, Barnsley 1913 1917
Hoyland Silkstone Hoyland, Barnsley 1873 1928 Sinking from 1874 to 1876. Temporarily abandoned in 1922. Discontinued 1926. Discontinued May 1928. Became part of Rockingham.
Hoyle Mill Farm Thornhill Edge, Dewsbury 1912 1919
Hudcliffe Wood Ecclesall, Sheffield 1915 Fireclay, abandoned 09/06/1915, plan 6437.
Hudcliffe Wood No.1 Ecclesall, Sheffield 1910 Fireclay, abandoned 20/07/1910, plan 5977.
Hudcliffe Wood No.2 Ecclesall, Sheffield 1910 Fireclay, abandoned 27/07/1910, plan 5976.
Hugh House Nab End 1863 1866 J. & A. Robinson
Hunger Hill Adwalton, Leeds 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Hungry Chert Arkengarthdale 1932 1950
Hunshelf Thurgoland, Sheffield 1859 1872
Hunshelf (a) Thurgoland, Sheffield 1865 1872
Hunslet Hunslet, Leeds 1855 1877
Hunslet Carr Hunslet, Leeds 1873 1883 Sinking from 1873 to 1883.
Hunsworth Hunsworth, Bradford 1854 1883 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Hunsworth Lift Hunsworth, Bradford 1910 1925 Temporarily abandoned February 1925. Probably Taylors Lift - pumping engine.
Hunsworth Lodge Hunsworth, Bradford 1910 1929 Abandoned November 1929
Hunsworth Mills Hunsworth, Bradford 1873 1880 Sinking from 1873 to 1879.
Hunt Royal Upper Whiteley, Wakefield 1868 1882
Huntroyd Wakefield 1884 1887 Sinking from 1884 to 1887.
Hurfield Hill Heeley, Sheffield 1923 1923 Abandoned.
Hurlfield Sheffield 1877 1881 Sinking from 1877 to 1881.
Hutcliffe Wood Millhouses, Sheffield 1922 1934 Abandoned August 1934
Huth Royd Upper Hoyland 1853 1877 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Sunk 1853 and closed 1877.


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