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Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854
Name Parish From To Comments
Garden Road Brighouse 1902 1907 J. Cliffe & Sons (See Lane Head)
Garforth Garforth, Leeds 1854 1925 See Isabella and Sisters Pits.
Garforth, Isabella Pit Garforth, Leeds 1896 1925 Sunk between 1831 and 1833 and closed in 1925.
Garforth, Sisters Pit Garforth, Leeds 1896 1922 Sisters Pit sunk 1843 - Beeston Bed. Opened in 1843 and worked out in 1922. Abandoned 19/05/1925.
Garforth, Trench Pit Garforth, Leeds 1901 1931 Trench Pit sunk 1901 to the Middleton Main Coal. Discontinued July 1930. Abandoned June 1931.
Gascoigne Wood Drift South Milford, Selby 1977 2004 Closed on 26/10/2004 when Riccall stopped coaling.
Gatehead Hazlehead, Holmfirth 1864 1921
Gaubert Hall Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1888 1922 J. Brooke & Sons; Brookes Ltd 1907 onwards. 30 years Drifting began 1888? Standing in 1897. Not listed 1898-1904, 1914-1920; Not worked from 1923 to 1925. Only worked in 10 years during the listed period. Listing ceases 1926. Not over 31 men employed.
Gawber Gawber, Barnsley 1917 1922 Reopened in 1917? Closed 07/02/1922. Abandoned 05/01/1925.
Gawber Gawber, Barnsley 1886 1899
Gawber Hall Gawber, Barnsley 1923 1932 Reopened in 1923? Abandoned July 1932
Gawber Hall Gawber, Barnsley 1854 1893 Standing from 1878 to 1883.
Gawber, Beevers Gawber, Barnsley 1927 1927 Abandoned 14/04/1927.
Gawthorpe Ossett, Wakefield 1855 1889
Gawthorpe (a) Ossett, Wakefield 1855 1872
Gawthorpe Green Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1921 1929 Discontinued September 1929.
Gawthorpe Wood Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1941 1944 Abandoned January 1944.
Gayle Hawes 1887 1912 Not working from 1908 to 1912
Geldard Road (a) Gildersome, Leeds 1861 1887
Geldard Road (b) Gildersome, Leeds 1876 1910 Not listed from 1892 to 1904. Re-sinking in 1910 and may have become part of Hunsworth Lift thereafter.
Geldard Road © Gildersome, Leeds 1892 1897
Gelderd Hill Gildersome, Leeds 1875 1877
Gelderd Main Gildersome, Leeds 1872 1872
George Street Dewsbury 1855 1860
Germain Main Huddersfield 1875 1881
Gibralter Bradfield, Sheffield 1944 1952 Not worked from 1947 to 1952.
Gildersome Gildersome, Leeds 1901 1925 See Netherton. Abandoned 14/02/1926.
Gildersome (a) Gildersome, Leeds 1854 1857
Gildersome (b) Gildersome, Leeds 1907 1909
Gildersome (c) Gildersome, Leeds 1854 1854
Gildersome (d) Gildersome, Leeds 1854 1854
Gildersome (e) Gildersome, Leeds 1854 1877
Gildersome (f) Gildersome, Leeds 1861 1868
Gildersome (g) Gildersome, Leeds 1888 1899
Gildersome (h) Gildersome, Leeds 1893 1893
Gildersome Street Gildersome, Leeds 1854 1876
Gill Field Romaldkirk 1923 1924 Closed from 1924 to 1926
Gilstead Gildersome, Leeds 1927 1927 Abandoned September 1927.
Gilthwaites Denby Dale 1918 1919
Gipton Foundry Lane, Leeds 1916 1918
Glasshoughton Castleford 1863 1986 Sunk betwern 1865 and 1869. Closed on 28/03/1986.
Glasshoughton (a) Castleford 1874 1877 Sinking from 1874 to 1877.
Glasshouse Middleton, Leeds 1855 1860
Gleadless Sheffield 1876 1880 Sinking from 1878 to 1880.
Gleadless Common Intake, Sheffield 1872 1873
Gleadless Common Intake, Sheffield 1921 1930 Sinking to Silkstone in 1921 & 1922. Abandoned December 6th 1930
Glen Barnsley 1924 1927
Glenfield Odsal, Bradford 1921 1924
Glenfield No.2 Odsal, Bradford 1925 1931 Abandoned February 1931.
Goathland (a) Goathland Moor 1893 1934
Goathland (b) Grosmont 1887 1950 Not worked from 1931 to 1935.
Goldthorpe Goldthorpe, Doncaster 1909 1994 In 1958 the coal winding shaft was replced by a drift. Merged with Highgate in 1967 and with Hickleton between 1987 and 1989. Goldthorpe closed 18/02/1994.
Goldthorpe Goldthorpe 1909 1994 Production ended in February 1994.
Gomersal (a) Gomersal, Leeds 1855 1860
Gomersal (f) Gomersal 1883 1887 Sinking in 1883.
Gomersal Main Gomersal 1913 1973 Sinking 1913 to 1916. Abandoned 1924 to 1928. Closed at the end of June 1973 owing to danger from neighbouring old workings as a result of the Lofthouse inrush.
Gomersal Main Gomersal, Leeds 1854 1867 Given as Gomersal from 1854 to 1860
Gomersal Main (a) Gomersal, Leeds 1878 1887
Gomersal Main (b) Gomersal, Leeds 1881 1887
Gomersal Main (c) Gomersal, Leeds 1876 1880
Goodhope Normanton 1871 1886
Grace Cottage Drift Romaldkirk 1920 1924 Seam is two feet thick.
Grange Kimberworth 1855 1962 Closed in 1921 and redeveloped by mid 1927. Closed in July 1962. Included Bradgate.
Grange (a) Kimberworth, Rotherham 1863 1872
Grange (b) Wakefield 1855 1872 #NAME?
Grange Ash Grange Moor, Wakefield 1871 1966 Closed through exhaustion in August 1966.
Grange Lane Rotherham 1856 1911 Standing from 1859 to 1869 and 1877 to 1892?
Grange Moor Grange Moor, Wakefield 1861 1872
Grange Moor (a) Grange Moor, Wakefield 1856 1887
Grange Moor (b) Grange Moor, Wakefield 1854 1887
Grange Moor (c) Grange Moor, Wakefield 1854 1857
Grangehouse Huddersfield 1861 1869
Granny Hall Brighouse 1901 1911 Lister, Chadwick & Co; Ramsden & Cliffe 1902 onwards. 12 years. Listing begins 1901; continuously worked until abandoned in 1912. Employed up to 21 men. No plans available.
Granny Lane Farnley, Leeds 1893 1903 At Beeston Royds
Granny Lane Mirfield, Dewsbury 1923 1924 Abandoned
Greasbro' Old Park Gate Rotherham 1855 1872 Continues from Greasbrough?
Greasbrough Rotherham 1873 1908 Continues as Greasbro' Old Park Gate?
Greasy Fold Bradford 1863 1864
Great Cliffe Crigglestone, Wakefield 1947 1948 Temporarily abandoned by 1947 and closed June 1947.
Great Ing Barnsley 1858 1858
Great Miers Halifax 1899 1935 Discontinued September 1935. Fireclay, Halifax Hard Bed, abandoned 15/10/1938, plan 12352.
Great Miers & Siddal Halifax 1908 1914
Greatfield Ossett, Wakefield 1913 1954 Sinking 1913 to 1916. Closed in September 1954.
Green House & High Wood Shelley, Huddersfield 1917 1928 Discontinued February 1928 and abandoned June 1930. See under Greenhouse from 1873 to 1916.
Green House & High Wood Shelley, Huddersfield 1919 1928 Discontinued February 1928. Abandoned June 1930. Abandoned July 1941.
Green Lane (a) Wyke Banks, Bradford 1873 1904 Not listed from 1891 to 1902 and reopened in 1903 and 1904. Green Lane Pit sunk in 1865?
Green Lane (d) Rawmarsh, Rotherham 1880 1881
Green Lane © Rawmarsh, Rotherham 1874 1880 Sinking from 1874 to 1876.
Green Man Hunslet, Leeds 1862 1887
Green Row Bradford 1855 1860
Green Side Pudsey, Leeds 1903 1903
Green Top Pudsey, Leeds 1873 1918 Sinking from 1873 to 1878. Not listed from 1879 to 1893. Continues as Pudsey Green Top from 1923.
Greenfield Rawmarsh, Rotherham 1865 1887
Greenfield Farm Opencast Calder Grove 1948 1953 Greenfield Farm Extension Opencast - 1953
Greengates Greengates, Bradford 1907 1920
Greenhouse Shelley, Huddersfield 1873 1916 Sinking from 1873 to 1879. Standing from 1893 to 1906. See under Green House & Hgh Wood from 1917 to 1930. Discontinued February 1928 and abandoned June 1930.
Greenhouse Huddersfield 1855 1860
Greenland Wombwell, Barnsley 1963 1988 Pumping Station
Greenland Wombwell, Barnsley 1963 1988 Pumping Station
Greens End Meltham, Huddersfield 1904 1914 Standing 1908 to 1914. May have been called Meltham before 1904.
Greenside Pudsey, Leeds 1889 1922 Standing 1907 to 1913. Not worked since February 1922.
Gregory Spring Upper Hopton 1921 1962 An earlier trial mine ran from 1914 to September 1921. Merged with Shuttle Eye in August 1962.
Gregory Spring Upper Hopton 1854 1886 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Linked to a wharf on the Calder by a tramway - a short branch of which led to the later "Gregory Springs" Colliery.
Greta Burton-in-Lonsdale 1896 1896 Abandoned
Greta Main Burton-in-Lonsdale 1872 1880
Greville Rawden, Leeds 1862 1880
Greville (b) Rawden, Leeds 1874 1879 Sinking from 1874 to 1876.
Greystone Adwalton, Leeds 1914 1920 Abandoned in 1920
Greystone Eccleshall, Sheffield 1877 1877 Sinking
Greystone Adwalton, Leeds 1877 1877
Greystones Ecclesall, Sheffield 1877 1877 Sinking.
Greystones (a) Ecclesall, Sheffield 1905 1905
Greystones (b) Ecclesall, Sheffield 1911 1911
Greystones (d) Ecclesall, Sheffield 1911 1913
Greystones (e) Ecclesall, Sheffield 1911 1928 Discontinued December 22nd 1928. Abandoned May 1930.
Gribdale Great Ayton 1892 1926 Abandoned in 1926.
Gribdale & Slacks Great Ayton 1910 1914
Griff’s Stannington, Sheffield 1891 1944 Abandoned December 1944.
Griff’s Top Yard Stannington, Sheffield 1907 1915 Closed in 1915. Standing 1915 to 1926
Grimescar Reap Hirst, Huddersfield 1854 1880 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Grimesthorpe Sheffield 1871 1898
Grimethorpe Grimethorpe 1894 1992 Sinking 1894 to 1897. Wound Houghton Main's coal from 1963. By 1991 Barnsley Main, Grimethorpe, Houghton Main and Dearne Valley were linked as part of the Southside Complex, with all their coal coming out at Grimethorpe. Closed 30/10/1992.
Grinton Grinton 1902 1921 Opening
Grove Farnley, Leeds 1878 1919 Sinking in 1878. Abandoned
Grove (a) Huddersfield 1913 1915 Abandoned
Grove Pit Ingleton, Settle 1909 1914 Abandoned October 1914.
Guide Moor Allerton, Bradford 1858 1862 Roper, Roper & Roper
Guide Moor Allerton, Bradford 1859 1862 Midgley & Midgley
Guide Moor Allerton, Bradford 1860 1878 J. Farrar & Sons
Guide Moor Allerton, Bradford 1866 Southwart, Smith, Southwart & Jowett
Guide Moor Allerton, Bradford 1866 1869 Simpson & Haigh; J. Roper 1869 onwards
Guide Moor Allerton, Bradford 1897 1905 R. Roper
Guide Moor Allerton, Bradford 1901 1906 T. Haigh; F. & A. Ball 1902 onwards
Guide Moor Allerton, Bradford 1916 1920 S. Kay; A. Kay 1919 onwards
Guide Moor (a) Allerton, Bradford 1867 1883 D. Moulson
Guyder Bottom Cawthorne 1927 1935 Abandoned June 1935. A trial was made in 1917.


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