Unlike parts of South Yorkshire this area has very few workable coals above the Barnsley or Top Hard coal. This results from a mixture of seam thinning and erosion.
A few pre-1998 papers on Nottinghamshire mining have been listed by Brook and Griffin gives an overview of the pre-nationalised industry there.1,2
Thoresby colliery was still producing coal in 2015.
When the coal industry was nationalised in 1947, there were 49 collieries in Nottinghamshire; now there is just one. The last five pits to close were Calverton (1999), Annesley (2000), Clipstone (2003), Harworth (2006) & Wellbeck (2010)
- Brook, M. A Nottinghamshire Bibliography: Publications on Nottinghamshire History before 1998 (The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire in association with the Nottingham Civic Society, 2002).
- Griffin, A.R. Mining in the East Midlands, 1550-1947 (Routledge, 1971)
Collieries after Nationalisation in 1947
Colliery | Location | Opened | Closed | ||
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Annesley | Annesley | 1865 | January | 2000 | |
Babbington | Cinderhill | 1842 | (January) | (1986) | Merged with Hucknall |
Bestwood | Bestwood | 1871 | July | 1967 | |
Blidworth | Blidworth | 1924 | March | 1989 | |
Calverton | Calverton | 1938 | April | 1999 | |
Cinderhill | Cinderhill | 1947 | 1947 | ||
Clifton | Wilford | 1870 | July | 1968 | |
Cotgrave | Cotgrave | 1955 | December | 1992 | |
Gedling | Gedling | 1900 | November | 1991 | |
Hucknall | Hucknall | 1854 | January | 1986 | |
Linby | Linby | 1875 | March | 1988 | |
Newstead | Newstead | 1874 | March | 1987 | |
Radford | Radford | 1854 | (December) | (1961) | Merged with Wollaton |
Radford & Wollaton | Wollaton | 1854 | April | 1965 | |
Wollaton | Wollaton | 1874 | (December) | (1961) | Merged with Radford |