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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