Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854
Name | Parish | From | To | Comments |
Wadsley | Sheffield | 1873 | 1887 | |
Wadsley Common | Wadsley, Sheffield | 1890 | 1923 | Abandoned 26/06/1923 |
Wadsley Common (a) | Wadsley, Sheffield | 1904 | 1915 | |
Wadsley Park | Wadsley, Sheffield | 1901 | 1938 | Abandoned September 1940 |
Waleswood | Aston, Sheffield | 1861 | 1948 | Closed in 15/05/1948 and used as a Pumping Station from 1953 to 1988. |
Waleswood | Aston, Sheffield | 1953 | 1988 | Closed in May 1948 and used as a Pumping Station from 1953 to 1988. |
Walkley | Heckmondwike | 1933 | 1936 | Discontinued July 1933 |
Walkley Lane | Heckmondwike | 1908 | 1932 | Standing 1908. Sinking in 1909 and 1910. Abandoned 10/05/1922. |
Wall Pit | Hunsworth, Bradford | 1883 | 1893 | |
Wallsend Main | Smithies, Barnsley | 1902 | 1905 | |
Walter Clough | Shibden, Halifax | 1873 | 1878 | Sinking in 1873 to 1878. |
Walterclough | Shibden, Halifax | 1905 | 1980 | |
Walton | Crofton, Wakefield | 1873 | 1979 | Sinking from 1873 to 1883. Closed December 1979. |
Walton No.3 | Walton, Wakefield | 1983 | 1987 | Pumping Station |
Warren House | Upper Haugh, Rawmarsh | 1860 | 1952 | Sinking to Barnsley 1860 and to Parkgate 1894. Used as a Pumping Station from 1944 to 1952. |
Warren House | Dewsbury | 1868 | 1872 | |
Warren Park Quarry | Bingley, Bradford | 1910 | 1913 | Stone shafts in the Gilstead area. |
Warren Vale | Rawmarsh, Rotherham | 1854 | 1938 | 20/12/1851 - explosion killed 52. Developing 1933 to 1938. Closed 1905 to 1932. |
Water Haigh | Oulton, Leeds | 1908 | 1970 | Sinking from 1908 to 1909. Closed in April 1970 and then used as a Training Centre until 1972. |
Water Loose | Adwalton, Leeds | 1862 | 1872 | |
Waterloo | Woodlesford, Leeds | 1855 | 1879 | |
Waterloo Main | Temple Newsam, Leeds | 1854 | 1968 | On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Closed in December 1968.. |
Waterloo Main, Dam Pit | Temple Newsam, Leeds | 1907 | 1916 | Sunk 1906 |
Waterloo Main, Park Pit | Temple Newsam, Leeds | 1917 | 1927 | Sunk 1857. Discontinued 23/11/1927. Used as a Pumping Station from 1929 to 1945. |
Waterloo Main, Park Pit | Temple Newsam, Leeds | 1929 | 1945 | Used as a Pumping Station from 1929 to 1945 |
Waterloo Main, Temple Pit | Temple Newsam, Leeds | 1913 | 1968 | Sinking Temple Pit from 1913 to 1914. Became part of Waterloo Main from 1947. |
Waterloo, Emley | Flockton, Wakefield | 1896 | 1912 | Standing 1902 to 1911. Abandoned in 1912 |
Waterside | Burton-in-Lonsdale | 1896 | 1911 | Standing 1908 to 1911. |
Wath Main | Wath upon Dearne | 1873 | 1988 | Sinking from 1873 to 1877. Merged with Manvers in 1986 and closed 25/03/1988. |
Wath Wood | Barnsley | 1874 | 1875 | |
Watson | Southowram, Halifax | 1926 | 1928 | Abandoned 1928. |
Wavell Pit | Scholes, Bradford | 1881 | 1892 | Part of Whitehall Colliery. |
Webster | Adwalton, Leeds | 1875 | 1882 | |
Well House | Penistone | 1911 | 1921 | |
Well Royd | Southowram, Halifax | 1896 | 1899 | |
Wellington | Gomersal | 1866 | 1881 | |
Wentworth | Birstal, Leeds | 1855 | 1861 | |
Wentworth Drift | Wentworth | 1947 | 1955 | Closed in November 1955. |
Wentworth Silkstone | Stainbro' | 1911 | 1978 | Merged with Silkstone Common in January 1961 and closed in July 1978 and became a pumping pit.. |
West Ardsley | West Ardsley, Leeds | 1934 | 1935 | Pumping Shaft from 1934 to 1935. |
West Ardsley | West Ardsley, Leeds | 1855 | 1931 | Abandoned April 1931. |
West End | Morley, Leeds | 1898 | 1933 | See Morley West End from 1876 to 1897. Discontinued May 1933. Abandoned October 1937 |
West End (b) | Romaldkirk | 1923 | 1925 | Standing in 1926 and abandoned in March 1927. |
West Field | Wyke, Bradford | 1877 | 1887 | Sinking from 1877 to 1878. Standing from 1888 to 1898 and from 1903 to 1905. |
West Field | Wyke, Bradford | 1877 | 1924 | Sinking in 1905. Abandoned 11/01/1924. |
West Gawber | Barnsley | 1858 | 1875 | |
West Gawber Main | Barnsley | 1890 | 1893 | |
West House | Heaton, Bradford | 1901 | 1908 | E. Tetley; Hill & Craven 1902 onwards |
West Hunsworth | Hunsworth, Bradford | 1888 | 1902 | Included Cleckheaton |
West Kiveton | Kiveton Park | 1874 | | Sunk 1874 to 1875. Also called Kiveton Park No.3 Shaft. |
West Lane | Gomersal | 1873 | 1898 | Sinking from 1883 to 1887 |
West Lane | Southowram, Halifax | 1897 | 1918 | S. Marshall & Son; Marshall & Greenwood 1899-1901; Marshall & Sons 1901 onwards |
West Lane | Southowram, Halifax | 1899 | 1909 | J. Farrar; Farrar & Sons |
West Lane | Southowram, Halifax | 1899 | 1902 | Hartley & Kaye |
West Lane | Gomersal | 1861 | 1867 | |
West Lane | Southowram, Halifax | 1900 | 1900 | L. Clegg & Co |
West Lane | Southowram, Halifax | 1897 | 1916 | Sunk 1896. |
West Melton | Melton, Rotherham | 1854 | 1886 | |
West Pits | High Abbotside, Hawes | 1926 | 1926 | Closed since 31/12/1926 |
West Riding | Altofts, Wakefield | 1854 | 1966 | 1964-1965 = Fox Drift. Closed October 1966. |
West Riding (Fox Pit) | Altofts, Wakefield | 1885 | 1966 | Sunk to Silkstone in 1885 and the Better Bed in 1908. |
West Scrafton | West Scrafton, Leyburn | 1870 | 1915 | Reopening from 1905 to 1908. Abandoned in August 1908 and on 26/11/1915. |
West Silkstone | Silkstone Common, Barnsley | 1855 | 1912 | Not listed from 1871 to 1898. Abandoned in 1912. Reopened in 1921 and abandoned in 1922. |
West Yorkshire | Manston, Leeds | 1865 | 1882 | |
West Yorkshire (a) | Birstall, Dewsbury | 1862 | 1873 | Listed in 1877. |
Westcroft Lane | Northowram, Halifax | 1898 | 1905 | |
Westfield | Ossett, Wakefield | 1863 | 1872 | Working in 1897 and 1899. |
Westfield (a) | Parkgate, Rawmarsh | 1925 | 1988 | |
Westgate | Cleckheaton | 1905 | 1915 | Abandoned March 1915 |
Westgate Common | Wakefield | 1890 | 1903 | On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. |
Westgate Manor | Wakefield | 1854 | 1860 | |
Westgate Moor | Wakefield | 1874 | 1881 | Sinking from 1874 to 1876. |
Westroyde | Hipperhome, Bradford | 1909 | 1909 | |
Westwood | Sheffield | 1863 | 1866 | |
Wetshaw | Ughill, Sheffield | 1905 | 1905 | |
Wharncliffe | Oughtibridge, Sheffield | 1859 | 1945 | Not listed from 1890 to 1909. Working from 1910 to 1919. Not listed from 1920 to 1936. Working from 1937 to 1945. Abandoned February 1945. |
Wharncliffe Chase | Deepcar, Sheffield | 1927 | 1947 | See also Wharncliffe Wood |
Wharncliffe Haigh Moor | Barnsley | 1910 | | Sinking |
Wharncliffe Silkstone | Pilley | 1972 | 1988 | Used as a Pumping Station from 1972 to 1988. |
Wharncliffe Silkstone | Pilley | 1860 | 1967 | Sunk 1853 and opened in 1854. Called Wharncliffe Silkstone No.1 until 1930. Closed and merged with Rockingham in June 1967. Used as a Pumping Station from 1972 to 1988 |
Wharncliffe Silkstone, Knoll Drift | Tankersley, Sheffield | 1905 | 1914 | Used as a pumping station 1918 to 1921. |
Wharncliffe Wood | Deepcar, Sheffield | 1866 | 1936 | Not listed from 1882 to 1914. Discontinued July 1936 and abandoned August 1938. |
Wharncliffe Woodmoor No.3 | Carlton | 1970 | 1988 | No.3 used as a Pumping Station from 1970 to 1988. |
Wharncliffe Woodmoor Nos.1, 2 & 3 | Carlton | 1871 | 1965 | Sinking in 1871. Closed in August 1965. No.3 used as a Pumping Station from 1970 to 1988. |
Wharncliffe Woodmoor Nos.4 & 5 | Carlton | 1925 | 1970 | Called Carlton Main until it closed in 1909 and reopened in 1925. Closed in July 1970. |
Wharncliffe, Carlton | Barnsley | 1878 | 1899 | |
Wharncliffe, Ganister | Deepcar, Sheffield | 1901 | 1909 | |
Wheatley Wood | Darton, Barnsley | 1869 | 1923 | Sunk 1869. Abandoned 28/04/1923. |
Wheatshire | Ughill, Sheffield | 1891 | 1980 | Abandoned 11/10/1969. |
Wheldale | Castleford | 1863 | 1987 | Closed 16/10/1987. |
Whetley | Bradford | 1855 | 1858 | |
Whinmore No.1 | Skelmanthorpe | | 1916 | Abandoned |
Whinmore No.2 | Skelmanthorpe | 1916 | 1923 | |
Whinny Moor | Ossett, Wakefield | 1869 | 1913 | Abandoned June 1913 |
Whitaker Pits | Scholes, Bradford | 1882 | 1899 | On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. |
White Close Lane | Denby Dale | 1917 | 1929 | Standing in 1920. Discontinued February 1928. |
White Gate | Halifax | 1878 | 1881 | |
White Hart | Bradford | 1888 | 1892 | |
White Hill or Penny Pie | Dodworth, Barnsley | 1861 | 1872 | |
White Horse | York Road, Leeds | 1854 | 1885 | Sometimes given as White House. |
White Lea | Heckmondwike | 1888 | 1941 | Abandoned April 1941. |
White Lee | Leeds | 1854 | 1899 | Not listed between 1888 and 1895. |
White Rock | High Abbotside, Hawes | 1887 | 1913 | |
Whitegate | Siddal, Halifax | 1898 | 1899 | |
Whitehall | Wyke, Bradford | 1878 | 1883 | See also Wavell Pit. |
Whitehall | Scholes, Cleckheaton | 1893 | 1905 | |
Whitehills | Kippax, Leeds | 1909 | 1913 | |
Whitemoor | Barlby, Selby | 1980 | 1998 | Production began in January 1988. Merged with Ricall in 1998. |
White's Dayhole | Farnley, Leeds | 1878 | 1929 | |
Whitley | Kirkheaton, Huddersfield | 1854 | 1883 | Continued as Whitley Clough? |
Whitley Beaumont Opencast | Whitley Beaumont | 1954 | 1957 | |
Whitley Clough | Mirfield, Dewsbury | 1884 | 1947 | Previously called Whitley. |
Whitley Park | Mirfield, Dewsbury | 1922 | 1924 | |
Whitley Park & Pisgah Farm | Grange Moor, Wakefield | 1931 | 1933 | Abandoned January 1933 |
Whitley Park, Clough Gate | Grange Moor, Wakefield | 1925 | 1930 | |
Whitley Park, Cockley Wood | Grange Moor, Wakefield | 1925 | 1930 | Discontinued 30/06/1927. |
Whitley Temple Drift | Kirkheaton, Huddersfield | 1955 | 1969 | |
Whitley Wood | Mirfield, Dewsbury | 1868 | 1880 | |
Whitwell Main | Pontefract | 1871 | 1871 | |
Whitwood | Whitwood, Normanton | 1854 | 1968 | Closed in March 1968. |
Whitwood, Don Pedro | Loscoe, Normanton | 1878 | 1912 | Called Don Pedro before 1901. Closed in 1912 and used for ventilation. |
Wibsey | Wibsey, Bradford | 1854 | 1872 | On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. |
Wibsey Bank Foot | Wibsey, Bradford | 1871 | 1878 | |
Will Royd | Halifax | 1888 | 1894 | |
William Gill | Arkengarthdale | 1877 | 1893 | Abandoned 12/04/1883. |
Willow Bank | Barnsley | 1861 | 1887 | |
Willow Main | Tingle Bridge, Barnsley | 1888 | 1889 | See Tingle Bridge from 1877 to 1887. |
Wilsden | Wilsden, Bradford | 1854 | 1912 | Closed in 1899 and reopened in 1909. Standing from 1912 to 1916. Abandoned in 1917. |
Wilson Field | Rastrick, Brighouse | 1899 | 1900 | Sunderland & Mellors |
Wilson Main | Kirkburton, Huddersfield | 1873 | 1881 | Sinking from 1873 to 1878. |
Wilson Pit | Oakenshaw, Bradford | 1858 | 1897 | On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. |
Wilson Wood | Ingleton, Settle | 1855 | 1887 | Abandoned after an inundation on Sunday, 21st October 1866 and reopening in 1872 and production resumed from November 1874. For sale in July 1887 and closed in August 1887. |
Wincobank | Wincobank, Sheffield | 1873 | 1879 | |
Wincobank (a) | Wincobank, Sheffield | 1874 | 1877 | Sinking from 1874 to 1876. |
Wincobank Hall | Wincobank, Sheffield | 1920 | 1921 | |
Wincobank Wood | Grimesthorpe, Sheffield | 1923 | 1924 | Abandoned March 1924. |
Windmill Hill | Shelley, Huddersfield | 1919 | 1922 | Abandoned 1922 |
Windy Bank | Ambler Thorn, Halifax | 1855 | 1860 | On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. |
Winney Moor | Wakefield | 1868 | 1872 | |
Winter | Crigglestone, Wakefield | 1926 | 1926 | Abandoned 03/12/1926. |
Winter Hill | Hoyland, Barnsley | 1854 | 1863 | |
Winter Hill | Hoyland, Barnsley | 1872 | 1887 | |
Winter Main | Dirtcar, Wakefield | 1894 | 1903 | |
Winter Seam | Worsbrough, Barnsley | 1888 | 1889 | |
Wistow | Wistow, Selby | 1976 | 2004 | Production began on 27/06/1983 and the last coal was worked 13/05/2004. |
Wombwell Main | Wombwell, Barnsley | 1854 | 1969 | Sinking from 1853 to 1854.. Closed 23/05/1969. |
Wood | Denby Dale | 1921 | 1926 | Standing from 1924 to 1926. |
Wood (a) | Holmfirth, Huddersfield | 1855 | 1873 | |
Wood (b) | Holmfirth, Huddersfield | 1855 | 1897 | |
Wood (d) | Hunsworth, Bradford | 1878 | 1886 | |
Wood Ganister | New Mill, Huddersfield | 1913 | 1914 | Abandoned June 1914 |
Wood Lane | Bradford | 1923 | 1927 | Closed. Abandoned January 1927. |
Wood Top | Huddersfield | 1893 | 1894 | |
Woodend | Stannington, Sheffield | 1902 | 1949 | Mainly a ganister mine |
Woodend (a) | Stannington, Sheffield | 1910 | 1940 | |
Woodend No.2 | Oughtibridge, Sheffield | 1910 | 1919 | Standing |
Woodend No.3 | Oughtibridge, Sheffield | 1915 | 1919 | Standing |
Woodfield | Brighouse | 1918 | 1929 | Hudson Brook. Abandoned September 1929 |
Woodfield | Liversedge, Dewsbury | 1874 | 1875 | Sinking from 1874 to 1875 |
Woodhead | Hipperhome, Bradford | 1904 | 1905 | A. Longbottom |
Woodhouse | Handsworth, Sheffield | 1861 | 1872 | |
Woodhouse | Hipperhome, Bradford | 1908 | 1908 | |
Woodhouse | Normanton | 1914 | 1916 | Standing 1915 to 1916 - owner killed in War |
Woodhouse | Handsworth, Sheffield | 1874 | 1877 | Sinking from 1874 to 1877. |
Woodhouse Junction | Sheffield | 1855 | 1866 | |
Woodhouse Lane | East Ardsley, Leeds | 1888 | 1899 | Sinking from 1880 to 1882. |
Woodhouse Lane (a) | East Ardsley, Leeds | 1873 | 1885 | Sinking from 1873 to 1878. |
Woodhouse Lane (b) | East Ardsley, Leeds | 1880 | 1886 | Sinking from 1880 to 1886. |
Woodhouse Mill | Sheffield | 1854 | 1866 | |
Woodlesford | Woodlesford, Leeds | | 1887 | |
Woodman | Elland, Halifax | 1909 | 1937 | Abandoned 19/06/1937. |
Woodman Clay Mine | Elland, Halifax | 1878 | 1903 | |
Woodmoor | Crigglestone, Wakefield | 1854 | 1881 | On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. |
Woodmoor | Crigglestone, Wakefield | 1924 | 1926 | |
Woodmoor (a) | Crigglestone, Wakefield | 1854 | 1881 | #NAME? |
Woodmoor (b) | Crigglestone, Wakefield | 1873 | 1880 | Sinking from 1873 to 1877 |
Woodroyd | Honley, Huddersfield | 1855 | 1862 | |
Woodroyde | Wibsey, Bradford | 1890 | 1897 | |
Woodside | Fartown | 1861 | 1864 | William Aspinall |
Woodside | Liversedge, Dewsbury | 1883 | 1890 | |
Woodside | Odsal, Bradford | 1918 | 1920 | Abandoned |
Woodside Opencast | Lepton, Huddersfield | 1957 | 1957 | |
Woodsome | Lepton, Huddersfield | 1921 | 1931 | No.3 Shaft sunk 1914 to 1922. Abandoned July 1941. |
Woodsome No.2 | Lepton, Huddersfield | 1921 | 1924 | Sinking 1921 |
Woodsome Outcrop | Rowley Bottom | 1930 | 1933 | Abandoned December 1933. |
Woodthorpe | Sheffield | 1854 | 1928 | Discontinued 1928 |
Woodwell | Batley, Dewsbury | 1874 | 1878 | Sinking from 1874 to 1878 |
Woogill | Stonebeck Up, Pateley Bridge | 1876 | 1892 | |
Woollen Well Main | Crigglestone, Wakefield | 1874 | 1890 | Sinking from 1874 to 1877. |
Woolley | Darton, Barnsley | 1854 | 1987 | Closed 22/12/1987. |
Woolley | Darton, Barnsley | 1854 | 1987 | No. 3 Shaft sunk 1942. Closed 22/12/1987. |
Woolley Edge | Woolley Edge, Barnsley | 1932 | 1966 | Closed through exhaustion in June 1966. |
Woolley Moor | Dennington | 1896 | 1905 | |
Woolley Moor (a) | Dennington | 1955 | 1969 | Used as a Pumping Station from 1955 to 1969. |
Woolley Moor (b) | Dennington | 1953 | 1955 | |
Woolley, Barnsley | Darton, Barnsley | 1955 | 1988 | Used as a Pumping Station from 1955 to 1988. |
Woolrow | Shelley, Huddersfield | 1892 | 1925 | Abandoned 22/12/1925. |
Worrall | Worrall, Sheffield | 1885 | 1899 | |
Worrall Moor | Worrall, Sheffield | 1893 | 1914 | Abandoned in 1914. |
Worrall Moor (a) | Worrall, Sheffield | 1913 | 1922 | Or Darwent Lane (from 1918 to 1922). Discontinued 15/09/1915. |
Worsborough Park | Worsborough, Barnsley | 1855 | 1886 | |
Worsbro’ Dale | Worsbro’, Barnsley | 1890 | 1892 | |
Wortley (a) | Wortley, Leeds | 1856 | 1887 | |
Wortley (b) | Wortley, Sheffield | 1854 | 1889 | |
Wortley No.2 | Wortley, Leeds | 1940 | 1969 | Includes Wortley No.3 from 1948 to 1950. |
Wortley No.3 | Wortley, Leeds | 1948 | 1950 | |
Wortley Silkstone | Sheffield | 1861 | 1880 | |
Wortley, Busk Pit | Wortley, Leeds | 1884 | 1905 | See Busk |
Wragby | Wragby, Wakefield | 1863 | 1863 | |
Wrenthorpe | Wakefield | 1905 | 1928 | Sunk in 1838 and closed in 1900. New sinking in 1905 and reopened in 1907 and abandoned 26/06/ 1928. |
Wrenthorpe | Wakefield | 1854 | 1900 | Sunk in 1838 and closed in 1900. Reopened in 1905. |
Wrigley Tip | Denby Dale | 1915 | 1915 | Discontinued |
Wroe | Bradford | 1871 | 1880 | |
Wrose Brow | Shipley, Bradford | 1892 | 1915 | |
Wrose Hill | Shipley, Bradford | 1902 | 1944 | Wrose Hill Fire Clay Works. Discontinued July 1944. |
Wycliffe | Richmond | 1935 | 1938 | Abandoned - October 1938 |
Wyke | Wyke, Bradford | 1854 | 1880 | |
Wyre Hall | Adwalton, Leeds | 1875 | 1903 | |
Return to Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854 index page
|