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Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854
Name Parish From To Comments
Paddock Northowram, Halifax 1899 1900 D. Briggs & Co
Paper Hall Opencast Lepton, Huddersfield 1955 1956
Paradise Birstall, Dewsbury 1876 1877
Park Liversedge, Dewsbury 1873 1899 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Park Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1897 1897 R. Kershaw
Park Northowram, Halifax 1897 1904 J. Brooke & Sons
Park Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1897 1914 Walker & Co; Skirrow & Robertshaw 1902. 18 years Existed in 1897, and was worked more or less continuously until 1914, but it appears there was only surface work after 1911 (or underground work force not returned?). Not more than 28 men employed.
Park Huddersfield 1855 1860
Park Brighouse 1909 1912 Shaw, Hirst & Hardy
Park (h) Clayton West, Huddersfield 1912 1912 Abandoned 1912
Park Bottom Halifax 1855 1869
Park Brickworks Quarry Sheffield 1954 1959
Park Farm Heckmondwike 1868 1905 Abandoned 1905
Park Gate Chapeltown 1854 1878
Park Hill Stanley, Wakefield 1876 1982 No.3 Pit sunk in 1876 to 1877. Opened in 1877 and closed in December 1982.
Park Lane Ossett, Wakefield 1862 1885
Park Mill Clayton West, Huddersfield 1877 1989 This mine pioneered mechanical coal cutting in 1880. Closure may have been in 1990.
Park Nook Elland, Halifax 1962 1988
Park Side Farnley, Leeds 1921 1935 Abandoned November 1935
Park View Kimberworth 1921 1923
Park View No.2 Kimberworth 1924 1925 Abandoned February 1926.
Park Wood Tong, Bradford 1932 1961 Discontinued in 1920.
Parkgate (a) Rotherham 1856 1860
Parkgate (b) Rotherham 1856 1860
Parkwood Neepsend 1916 1920
Parlington Opencast East Garforth, Leeds 1948 1952
Parr Town Huddersfield 1854 1854
Pasture Oakenshaw, Bradford 1941 1944 Abandoned January 1944.
Pasture House Southowram, Halifax 1859 1860 Messrs Naylor, & others
Pasture Pit Wyke, Bradford 1877 1880 Sinking from 1877 to 1878.
Peacock Pit Holbeck, Leeds 1915 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. See Elland Road.
Pease Close Huddersfield 1861 1883
Peckfield Micklefield, Leeds 1888 1980 See Micklefield 1869 to 1888. No.1 Shaft sunk in 1872. Closed in December 1980.
Peep Green Hartshead, Bradford 1861 1899 Not listed from 1876 to 1890.
Pen Hill Opencast Cudworth Common 1957 1964
Penhill West Witton, Leyburn 1882 1910 Not worked in 1910.
Penn Field Drighlington, Leeds 1856 1864
Pepper Lane Hunslet, Leeds 1855 1864
Perseverance Wakefield 1873 1876 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Philadelphia Gildersome, Leeds 1894 1912
Pigeon Bridge Waleswood, Rotherham 1855 1860
Pildacre Ossett, Wakefield 1872 1944 Standing 1910 to 1933. Abandoned September 1936 and abandoned July 1944.
Pilley Sheffield 1854 1858
Pilley Wood Sheffield 1854 1854
Pindar Oaks Barnsley 1867 1884 Sunk in 1867. Closed after 1884 and reopened in 1918. Abandoned 25/11/1922.
Pinfold Brighouse 1902 1902 W. Collins
Pinfold Fixby, Huddersfield 1940
Pinfold (a) Elland, Halifax 1886 1909 Marshall & Walker. This mine was closed in 1900 and re-opened in 1902 according to the mine plan. Working began 1891.
Pinfold (b) Ridge End 1878 1887 J.H. Marshall
Pinfold (c) Denby Dale 1908 1919 Reopened in 1938. Pinfold - Fireclay, Whinmoor, abandoned 10/07/1940, plan 12720.
Pinfold Ridge Fixby, Huddersfield 1902 1909 Marshall & Walker
Pinfold, New Papist Hill 1918 1921 Abandoned in 1922.
Pinfold, Old Denby Dale 1917 Standing 1918 to 1919.
Pisgah Farm Grange Moor, Wakefield 1927 1930
Pitsmoor Sheffield 1854 1860
Platts Ughill, Sheffield 1907 1960 Pot Clay, abandoned 01/06/1960, plan 15178.
Plevna Shipley, Bradford 1899 1901 G. Vint & Sons
Plumbley Eckington, Sheffield 1896 1896
Pocket Stile Brighouse 1879 1882 H.C. Goodyear; J. & C. Goodyear 1880
Pogmoor Barnsley 1856 1867
Pogmoor Main Barnsley 1905 1911 Abandoned
Ponker Hill Lower Cumberworth 1925 1964 Fireclay, abandoned 01/12/1964, plan 15227.
Pool Hill Denby Dale 1874 1876 Sinking from 1874 to 1876.
Popplewell Pit Wyke, Bradford 1856 1894 Sunk in 1856.
Popplewell Pit Wyke, Bradford 1872 1894
Portland Highburton 1880 1887 Sinking from 1880 to 1884.
Pot Clay Deepcar, Sheffield 1905 1920 Standing 1913 to 1916 Standing in 1920 and abandoned 01/11/1920, plan 7163.
Pot House Stocksbridge, Sheffield 1903 1941 Discontinued Janaury 1941. Clay Shale, Halifax Middle Bed, abandoned 06/05/1946, plan 14100.
Potter Hill Sheffield 1877 1879 Sinking from 1877 to 1878.
Potternewton Potternewton, Leeds 1855 1877
Poverty Hill Castleton 1888 1893 Standing from 1888 to 1893.
Poverty Hill Castleton 1877 1893
Premier Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1898 1902 T. Turner & Son
Preston Preston under Scar, Leyburn 1892 1914 Not worked 1912 to 1914
Preston Main Leeds 1856 1858
Priest Booth Todmorden 1937 1944 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Discontinued November 1944. Employment includes Midgelden Pasture No.3 and Saunder Clough No.1.
Primrose Hoylandswaine, Barnsley 1935 1968
Primrose Dolly Lane, Leeds 1873 1883 Sinking from 1873 to 1883.
Primrose Hill Swillington, Leeds 1947 1970 Called Allerton Main, Primrose Hill [sunk 1893] until 1947. Closed March 1970.
Primrose Hill Liversedge, Dewsbury 1861 1904 Standing 1905 to 1911. Abandoned 1912.
Primrose Lane Mirfield 1874 1877 Sinking from 1874 to 1876.
Primrose Main Barnsley 1888 1913
Primrose Winter Barnsley 1885 1887
Prince of Wales Pontefract 1869 2002 According to the NCB Statistics Department the mine was sunk in 1869. New Shaft sunk to Haigh Moor in 1872 and the Silkstone in 1894. Sinking to the Beeston in 1920. It was a training centre in 1948. Drift to Beeston from New Pit bottom.
Prospect Hartshead, Bradford 1885 1887 Blocking = 2 ft 4 ins thick.
Prospect Roberttown, Liversedge 1876 1883
Prospect White Lee, Batley 1901 1903
Providence Wakefield 1855 1880
Providence East Ardsley, Leeds 1864 1864
Providence Works Commondale 1887 1893 Standing in 1889. See also Commondale
Pudsey Pudsey, Leeds 1873 1879 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Pudsey Green Top Pudsey, Leeds 1923 1934 Had been called Green Top. Discontinued June 1931. Abandoned June 1934
Pulling Hill Denby Dale 1873 1887 Sinking from 1873 to 1887.
Punchard Arkengarthdale 1887 1927 Or Punchard Gill. Discontinued 1927. Abandoned 1929
Purston Purston Jaglin, Pontefract 1855 1860 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Purston Purston Jaglin, Pontefract 1877 Sinking
Pye Wood (a) Darton, Barnsley 1907 1921


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