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Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854
Name Parish From To Comments
Nab End Boothtown, Halifax 1855 1860 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Nab End Brighouse 1898 1902 Collins & Morris
Nab End Brighouse 1898 1905 Sunderland & Mellors; H. Mellors & Sons 1902 onwards
Nab Lane (Moor) Rotherham 1916 1918
Near Hill Barnsley 1922 1922 Abandoned December 1922.
Near Low Park Birstall, Dewsbury 1873 1875 Sinking from 1873 to 1875.
Needle Eye Denby Grange, Wakefield 1868 1872
Needless Hall Lane Head, Brighouse 1897 1901 Cookson & Ellis; J. Cookson (1901)
Needlewood Keresforth 1919 1924
Needlewood No.2 Dodworth, Barnsley 1924 1934 Discontinued December 1932 and abandoned January 1934
Netherfield Rawmarsh, Rotherham 1874 1884 Sinking from 1874 to 1876.
Netherton (a) Netherton, Wakefield 1876 1923 Included British Oak from 1918 to 1923.
Netherton (b) Drighlington, Leeds 1917 1923 See Gildersome. Abandoned 16/05/1925.
Netherton No.2 Drighlington, Leeds 1924 1925 Abandoned 14/09/1925.
Netherton Opencast Drighlington, Leeds 1961 1964
Nethertown Drighlington, Leeds 1855 1914 Not listed from 1873 to 1891. Abandoned July 1914.
Nethertown (a) Drighlington, Leeds 1873 1883 Sinking from 1873 to 1891.
Nethertown (b) Drighlington, Leeds 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Neville Hill Osmondthorpe, Leeds 1854 1884 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
New Bank (a) Halifax 1878 1884
New Bank (b) Halifax 1878 1884
New Brampton Rotherham 1891 1902 not working in 1902.
New Carlton Flockton Moor, Wakefield 1914 1915
New Crown Point Drighlington, Leeds 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1877.
New Dale Rawmarsh 1901 1901 Abandoned
New Farm Southowram, Halifax 1923 1927 S. Marshall & Sons. Not worked in 1923. Abandoned 1927.
New Gawber Hall Barnsley 1854 1861 Sunk prior to 1869 - also called Smithy Bridge
New Ground Huddersfield 1861 1910 Standing 1905 to 1909 and abandoned in 1910. There was a Copperas House nearby.
New Hall Middleton, Leeds 1855 1872
New Hall (a) Middleton, Leeds 1869 1903 Abandoned in 1903.
New Hall (b) Elland, Halifax 1878 1945 Discontinued September 1943. Fireclay, Halifax 36 Yard Band, abandoned 27/04/1945, plan 14006.
New Hall Quarry Elland, Halifax 1949 1951
New Holland Wilsden, Bradford 1921 1926 Abandoned 03/09/1926.
New Ingleton Ingleton, Settle 1912 1936 Sinking began in 1912 (the shafts were completed in 1914) by the New Ingleton Colliery Company Ltd. (W.C. Blackett; Charlsaw & Sacriston Colliery Co. Ltd - Sacriston, Co. Durham). Discontinued March 1936. Abandoned on 16/08/1940.
New Inn Clayton West, Huddersfield 1914 1927 Abandoned 18/03/1927.
New Lane Drighlington, Leeds 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1877.
New Lane Gildersome, Leeds 1932 1935 J. Lloyd liquidator. Abandoned May 1935
New Mills Huddersfield 1854 1854
New Monckton No.4 South Hiendley 1970 1988
New Monckton No.5 Notton, Barnsley 1948 1951 No.5 Shaft
New Monckton Nos.1 & 2 Royston 1848 1966 Sinking as Monckton from 1875 to 1878 and became New Monckton in 1901. Closed 03/12/1966.
New Monckton Nos.1 & 6 Royston 1954 1966 Nos 1 & 2 were sunk in 1875. No.3 was sunk in 1915 about 1.5 miles to the NE of Nos.1 & 2. No.4 was sunk next to No.3 in 1924. No.5 was sunk in 1927 about 1.5 miles NW of No.1 and was redundant in 1954. No.6 Shaft was being sunk in 1954.
New Monckton Nos.3 & 4 South Hiendley 1948 1966 Called Monckton Main Nos.3 & 4 before 1948. No.3 Shaft was sunk from 1913 to 1915. No.4 was sinking from 1923 to 1924. Closed on 03/12/1966. No.4 Shaft was a Pumping Station from 1970 to 1988.
New Mytholme Hipperhome, Bradford 1903 1962 Fireclay, 36 Yard Band, abandoned 12/07/1962, plan 15207.
New Oaks Stairfoot 1903 1909 Sinking from July 1867 to July 1870 and abandoned in 1909.
New Oaks Barnsley 1845 1909 Shown on 1st edition OS 1/10560 sheet as 'Oaks', but called 'Barnsley Main' on the 1904 OS map. Abandoned in 1909. NB The Old Oaks Colliery also became Barnsley Main at a later date (c1900?).
New Peace Huddersfield 1910 1923 Included Fieldhouse from 1913 to 1924. Abandoned 29/01/1924.
New Plumbley Plumbley, Sheffield 1952 1966
New Road Northowram, Halifax 1897 1906 Saville Holmes
New Road Liversedge, Dewsbury 1861 1867
New Road Thornton, Bradford 1912 1923 Reopening old shaft
New Royd Head Saddleworth 1856 1860
New Sharlston Normanton 1865 1877 See Sharlston. Sunk to Haigh Moor in 1865 and the Silkstone in 1898.
New Silkstone Cawthorne 1935 1968 Discontinued June 1936. Includes New Silkstone Opencast from 1949 to 1950.
New Sovereign Dodworth, Barnsley 1901 1908 Sunk 1862. Standing 1903 to 1908. Clarke’s Old Silkstone Collieries.
New Speedwell Staincross 1923 1933 Discontinued January 1933
New Speedwell, No.2 Emley, Wakefield 1911 1935 Standing in 1911. Discontinued 05/11/1927. Standing 1928 to 1935. Abandoned November 1935
New Stubbin Rawmarsh, Rotherham 1913 1978 Sinking 1913 to 1920. Closed 06/07/1978.
New Thornton Thornton, Bradford 1898 1903
New Victoria Wakefield 1855 1860
New Winning Sheffield 1864 1887
New Winning Ingleton, Settle 1831 1857 Sunk by Joseph Hunter and reached the Four Foot Coal (at 80 yds) in January 1831 and the Six Foot Coal in June 1834. It became part of the (later) Wilson Wood Colliery and closed in 1857 - abandonment plan No.2132.
Newbiggin Tankersley, Sheffield 1918 1920
Newbiggin Tankersley, Sheffield 1888 1894
Newbiggin New Mill, Huddersfield 1922 1922
Newfield Ingleton, Settle 1871 1876 Sinking in 1871 and 1872. Four Foot Coal at 82 feet and Six Foot Coal at 156 feet.
Newhill Wath upon Dearne 1873 1886
Newman Road Sheffield 1912 1912 May be Newman Silkstone
Newman Silkstone Sheffield 1911 1911
Newmarket Adwalton, Leeds 1854 1887
Newmarket (a) Bradford 1854 1854
Newmarket (b) Birkenshaw, Bradford 1873 1920 Sinking from 1873 to 1876. Discontinued c1918. Abandoned in 1920
Newmarket (c) Stanley, Wakefield 1854 1897
Newmarket Silkstone Stanley, Wakefield 1836 1983 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Called Clive Pit. Sunk Sunk between 1836 and 1837. Closed on 30/09/1983.
Newmarket, Nelson Pit Stanley, Wakefield 1896 1897
Newmarket, Spencer Pit Stanley, Wakefield 1888 1913
Newmarket, Swithens Rothwell, Leeds 1902 1921 Abandoned March 1921.
Newmillerdam Newmillerdam, Wakefield 1929 1982 Began as Nineveh Colliery and closed in March (or December?) 1982.
Newton Wakefield 1854 1860
Newton Lane Stanley, Wakefield 1888 1897
Newton Main Pontefract 1861 1879
Ninevah Crigglestone, Wakefield 1921 1929 Discontinued March 1928 and abandoned February 1929. Became Newmillerdam Colliery.
Norcliffe Southowram, Halifax 1924 1925
Norcliffe Lane Southowram, Halifax 1924 1926 A. Binns
Norfolk Chapeltown 1880 1901
Norfolk & Smithy Wood Thorncliffe, Sheffield 1902 1931 Continues as Smithy Wood from 1932 to 1973.
Norr Hill Wilsden, Bradford 1841 1869 Pre 1841
Norristhorpe Liversdge, Dewsbury 1892 1892
North Bierley (a) Bradford 1854 1880
North Bierley (b) Bradford 1854 1880
North Cliffe Shipley, Bradford 1854 1877
North Gawber Mapplewell 1854 1987 Sinking 1850 to 1852 and closed in December 198). Darton merged with North Gawber in 1948 and the Darton Section closed in August 1948. One of the two surface drifts driven in 1960 was extended and by 1984 was bringing all output to the surface.
North Selby Escrick, Selby 1979 1997 Merged with Stillingfleet and closed in July 1997.
North Staveley Aston, Sheffield 1870 1905 Sunk in 1864. May have become Aston
North Wing Bradford 1855 1860
North Wood Tong, Bradford 1918 1925 Discontinued. Abandoned 1925. Receiver = J. Barker, Dudley Hill.
Northfield Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1920 1921 Abandoned October 14th 1921.
Northfield Ossett, Wakefield 1896 1917 Abandoned 1917.
Northorpe Mirfield, Dewsbury 1854 1875
Nortonthorpe Clayton West, Huddersfield 1888 1913 Abandoned October 1913
Nortonthorpe Scissett 1888 1913 Abandoned October 1913.
Norwood Norwood, Bradford 1865 1943 Sunk to Top Hard in 1865 and to the Deep Soft in 1916.
Norwood Green Norwood Green, Bradford 1929 1959 Sinking in 1873. Closed April 1959. The shaft at this mine, which also had a drift, was earlier called Flathers Pit. There is a picture of making the new drift into Norwood Green c1929 – in the Telegraph & Argus 05/10/1987.
Norwood Green Norwood Green, Bradford 1855 1869 120 ft to Black Bed.
Norwood Green Norwood Green, Bradford 1873 1880 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Nostell Nostell, Wakefield 1854 1987 According to the NCB Statistics Department the mine was sunk in 1860. Closed 23/10/1987.
Nunbrook Mirfield, Dewsbury 1879 1903 Abandoned in 1903.
Nunnery Sheffield 1961 1988 Sinking from 1860 to 1864. Was a Pumping Station from 1961 to 1988.
Nunnery Sheffield 1860 1953 Sinking from 1860 to 1864 and closed August 1953. Was a Pumping Station from 1961 to 1988. Not listed as Nunnery until c1890 so it may have had another name.
Nunnery, Handsworth Sheffield 1901 1925 Sinking from 1901 to 1902. Might be High Hazels
Nunthorpe Great Ayton 1909 1927 Not worked 1915 to 1918


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