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Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854
Name Parish From To Comments
Ladywood Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury 1921 1928 Abandoned March 1928.
Ladywood Mirfield, Dewsbury 1877 1881 Sinking from 1877 to 1878.
Laister Dyke Laisterdyke, Bradford 1856 1899 Sunk 1858 by Joseph Cliffe. Reopened in 1911 but standing in 1912 and 1913 and abandoned in 1914.
Laitham Brow Huddersfield 1855 1860
Landmere Northowram, Halifax 1909 1922 L. Naylor; W. & J. Glossop 1920 onwards. 14 years. This small mine is listed only from 1909 to 1922, and only worked in eight of those years. Not more than 13 men employed. No plans available.
Lands Head Northowram, Halifax 1866 Haley & Haley
Lands Head Northowram, Halifax 1911 1913 B. Ore. Sinking in 1911 and 1912
Lane Huddersfield 1855 1869 On 1st edition 1/10560 sheet - Sow Pit
Lane Leeds 1881 1883
Lane Bottom Denholme, Keighley 1920 1920 Abandoned
Lane Dyehouse Dewsbury 1854 1871
Lane End Flockton, Wakefield 1955 1988 See Denby Grange, Lane End
Lane End New Mill, Huddersfield 1878 1914 Standing 1904 to 1913. Abandoned 1914
Lane End Clayton West, Huddersfield 1927 1941 Discontinued April 1934 and August 1935
Lane Head Brighouse 1897 1902 L. Chadwick & Co.
Lane Head Brighouse 1911 1915 J. Brooke & Sons; Brookes Ltd 1913 onwards
Lane Head (c) Brighouse 1897 1899 J. Cliffe (See Garden Road)
Lane Head (j) Brighouse 1878 1915
Lane Side Shelley, Huddersfield 1856 1869
Lane Side (a) Adwalton, Leeds 1902 1911 Standing in 1909 and 1910 and abandoned in 1911 until 1921. Abandoned 1922.
Lane Side (b) Drighlington, Leeds 1894 1894
Lane Side (c) Cumberworth 1905 1905
Lane Side or Bell String Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1927 1930 Abandoned March 1930. Fireclay, Better Bed, abandoned 22/02/1930, plan 10241.
Lanes Wood Gomersal 1865 1899
Langbaurgh Great Ayton 1887 1950
Langhouse Worrall, Sheffield 1907 1920 Formerly called Birtin. Abandoned in 1910 and standing in 1911 to 1914. Reopened 1919 to 1920.
Latham Lane Gomersal, Leeds 1854 1863
Law Southowram, Halifax 1897 1898 J. Farrar & Sons
Law Huddersfield 1854 1863
Law Hill Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1932 1949 W. & J. Glossop Ltd; Yorkshire Public Works 1946 onwards. 15 years. Electrified mine listed 1932-1946, but discontinued working in December 1939. Not over 16 men employed. Plan held by Calderdale Archives.
Leak Hall Cumberworth 1901 1903 Abandoned in 1903.
Ledgard Bridge Mirfield, Dewsbury 1854 1885 Called Ledgard from 1854 to 1858.
Ledston Luck Kippax, Leeds 1910 1986 Sinking from 1910 to 1914. No.1 Pit was closed in 1933 and No.2 Pit closed in 1945. Redeveloped by the NCB in 1950. Closed on 31/10/1986.
Ledstone Kippax, Leeds 1907 1911 Sand, abandoned 15/10/1911, plan 5771.
Lee Pit Holbeck, Leeds 1884 1898 Disused by 1908 - near Beeston Royds.
Lee Top Allerton, Guide Moor 1887 1896 D. & C. Roper
Lee Wood Thurgoland, Sheffield 1859 1873
Legram Lane Horton, Bradford 1897 1899 R. Roper
Lepton Huddersfield 1894 1899
Lepton Edge Lepton, Huddersfield 1968 1988 Closed in August 1964 and used as a Pumping Station from 1968 to 1988.
Lepton Edge Lepton, Huddersfield 1894 1964 Closed in August 1964 and used as a Pumping Station from 1968 to 1988.
Lewden Bridge Worsbrough Dale, Barnsley 1894 1915 Working in 1874 and 1875? Standing in 1910 and 1911 and abandoned in 1915
Leyburn Leyburn, Hawes 1897 1900 Abandoned. No plans, only a trial hole.
Lidgett Tankersley, Sheffield 1883 1911 Abandoned in 1911
Lightcliffe Halifax 1920 1921 Plan (dated 1864) held at Railway Engineers Office. Standing 1922 to 1926.
Lightcliffe Halifax 1854 1872
Lightcliffe (c) Halifax 1869 1873
Lightcliffe (g) Southowram, Halifax 1920 1925 Standing from 1923 to 1925.
Lilley Clough Whiteley, Huddersfield 1858 1860 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Lime House Halifax 1863 1871
Lindale Hill Wakefield 1901 1903 Abandoned in 1903.
Linfit Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1855 1894 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Linked to a mill by a tramway.
Linfit Hill Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1901 1914 Abandoned November 1914
Linfit Lane Huddersfield 1892 1901
Listerwike, Low Pit Shibden, Halifax 1855 1865 Plan probably held by the Rail Authority Engineers Office at Derby
Little Clough Huddersfield 1856 1856
Little Don Stocksbridge, Sheffield 1942 1950 Fireclay, Pot Clay, abandoned 21/08/1947, plan 14244.
Little Gomersal Gomersal 1854 1887 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Little Green Liversedge, Dewsbury 1855 1867
Little Horton Bradford 1863 1871
Little Matlock Stannington, Sheffield 1901 1928 Abandoned June 30th 1928. High Matlock - Ganister, abandoned 30/11/1912, plan 6038.
Little Whiteley Drighlington, Leeds 1901 1923 Not listed from 1905 to 1915.
Liversedge Dewsbury 1854 1858
Liversedge (a) Liversedge, Dewsbury 1865 1875
Liversedge (b) Liversedge, Dewsbury 1867 1879
Liversedge Foundry Liversedge, Dewsbury 1861 1863
Lockwood Common Huddersfield 1855 1883
Lodge Morley, Leeds 1874 1903 Sinkinf from 1874 to 1878. Abandoned in 1903.
Lodge Farm Hunsworth, Bradford 1884 1889
Lodge Mill Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1890 1930 Abandoned March 1930
Lofthouse Outwood, Wakefield 1873 1981 Sinking from 1873 to 1882. Closed in July 1981.
Lofthouse Estate Lofthouse Park, Wakefield 1936 1940 Abandoned June 1941.
Lofthouse Park Lofthouse, Wakefield 1922 1922 Opened December 1922 and closed at the end of the month. Abandoned February 1923. Abandoned March 1927
Loftshaw Ughill, Sheffield 1948 1950 Fireclay, Pot Clay or Stannington, abandoned 28/03/1949, plan 14456.
Long Oakenshaw, Bradford 1883 1884
Long Close Brighouse 1897 1913 Midgley & Roper. 17 years A relatively small mine, continuously worked from 1897 until end of listing in 1913. Not over 29 men. No plans available. Site unknown. Might be near Closes Road SE141224 or in one of the Brighouse Closes SE138222
Long Royd Rastrick, Brighouse 1879 1886 Thornton & Midgley
Long Royd Rastrick, Brighouse 1881 1887 Nowell & Robson
Long Royd Rastrick, Brighouse 1879 1917 Bentley & Kaye & others. 21 years. Mine plans show first shafts sunk in 1879. Continuous working until 1917, when it was considered worked out. Up to 114 men employed. Good detailed plans. Originals, held by Thornhill Yorkshire Estates and NCB Small Min
Longlands Ossett, Wakefield 1910 1923 Abandoned May 1923.
Longroyd Rastrick, Brighouse 1882 1917
Low Ash Sheffield 1878 1879
Low Close Holbeck, Leeds 1907 1931 Abandoned August 1915. Reopened 1927 and abandoned August 1931.
Low Elsecar Elsecar, Rotherham 1855 1871
Low Flatts Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1876 Ledgard Naylor. A group of mines. Records confused.
Low Flatts Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1876 Midgley & Illingworth; T. Illingworth 1881
Low Flatts Lightcliffe, Brighouse 1876 Illingworth & Midgley; Hardy, Hainsworth. Howard and Mackerill 1878; ?Mackrill and Co. 1879 onwards
Low Laithes Ossett, Wakefield 1855 1927 Discontinued 17/05/1927 and abandoned 26/06/1928.
Low Level Arkengarthdale 1926 1932 Discontinued May 1932
Low Level Pit Muker 1887 1893
Low Matlock Stannington, Sheffield 1920 1945
Low Moor Lane Drift Woolley Moor, Barnsley 1956 1973
Low Slack Hepworth, Holmfirth 1893 1893
Low Street West Ardsley, Leeds 1884 1885 Sinking from 1884 to 1885
Low Stubbin Rotherham 1871 1988 Closed in 1918 and abandoned in July 1920. Used as a Pumping Station from 1961 to 1988.
Low Tunnel Cumberworth, Huddersfield 1921 1922 Closed July 1922
Low Wincobank Wincobank, Sheffield 1876 1877 Sinking in 1876.
Low Wood Shipley, Bradford 1875 1877
Lowe Wood Stainboro' 1903 1916
Lower Cliffe Denby Dale 1924 1929 Abandoned April 1929
Lower Cumberworth Huddersfield 1875 1885
Lower Denby Denby Dale 1921 1921 Abandoned December 1921.
Lower Denby Opencast Dewsbury 1957 1961
Lower Green Farm Brighouse 1898 1902 Exors. of H. Westwood; Collins & Morris, 1899
Lower Hall Kirkheaton, Huddersfield 1893 1894
Lower Holmhouse Huddersfield 1873 1881 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Lower Knight Royd Northowram, Halifax 1860 Jagger & Jagger
Lower Shibden Shibden, Halifax 1870 1887
Lower Shibden (a) Shibden, Halifax 1885 1892
Lower Wincobank Wincobank, Sheffield 1873 1883
Lowood Wharncliffe Sheffield 1888 1893
Lowther Leeds 1855 1858 Including Preston Main
Lowther's Kippax, Leeds 1855 1858 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Loxley Common Loxley, Sheffield 1902 1904 Abandoned 1904
Lumb Lane Liversedge, Dewsbury 1877 1896 Sinking from 1877 to 1887. Abandoned in 1903.
Lumb Wood Drighlington, Leeds 1856 1886 Reopening in 1913 - See Spring Gardens.
Lundhill Wombwell, Barnsley 1968 1969 Used as a Pumping Station from 1968 to 1969.
Lundhill Wombwell, Barnsley 1855 1869 Sunk 1855.


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