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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 Site 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.
Maltby (Main) Maltby 1907 2012
Manor (b) Sheffield 1873 1889 Sinking from 1873 to 1877.
Manor (c) Hoylandswaine, Barnsley 1937 1944 Abandoned August 1944.
Manor (d) Wortley, Leeds 1888 1905
Manor Hill Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1891 1891
Manor Laithe Sheffield 1917 1924 Abandoned July 1924.
Manor No.2 Hoylandswaine, Barnsley 1941 1950 Fireclay, Blackband – Whinmoor, abandoned 20/06/1950, plan 15057.
Manston Manston, Leeds 1854 1881 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Manston Lodge Manston, Leeds 1865 1881 NB This is the location of Manston Lodge
Manton Manton 1897 1993 No.2 Pit sunk 1897 to 1906. A new shaft was completed in 1952. Wound the first coal in Yorkshire after the 1984 to 1985 strike.
Manvers Main No.1 Wath upon Dearne 1868 1988 Sinking from 1868 to 1870 on shafts 1, 2 & 3. No.4 shaft was sunk to the Parkgate Seam in 1899-1901. Closed 25/03/1988.
Manvers Main Nos.2 & 3 Wath upon Dearne 1868 1936 Merged with Manvers No.1 in 1936
Margery Wood High Hoyland, Barnsley 1920 1947 Abandoned November 1922 and reopened in 1929.
Markham Main Armthorpe, Doncaster 1916 1992 Sinking from 1916 to 1924. In review May 1992. Closed October 1992.
Marriott Wood Millhouses, Sheffield 1920 1928 Abandoned in 1921. Reopened in 1927 and abandoned August 22nd 1928.
Marsh Southowram, Halifax 1897 1898 Baines, Whiteley & Rushworth
Marsh Lane Southowram, Halifax 1902 1915 Stott & Gledhill; Stott & Sons 1906 onwards. 14 years. Listing begins 1902, mine abandoned in 1915; in this period it was worked in 11 years only. Up to 37 men employed. No plans available. Reopening 1910 to 1912. Abandoned 1915.
Marsh Platt Huddersfield 1855 1860
Martins Main Barnsley 1879 1879 List of fatal accidents
Mary Churwell, Leeds 1874 1881 Sinking from 1874 to 1879
Masborough Rotherham 1854 1854
May Royd Northowram, Halifax 1893 1899
Mayers Lane Bradfield, Sheffield 1938 1938
Meadow Fireclay Sheffield 1874 1899 Sinking from 1874 to 1878.
Meadow Hall Rawmarsh, Rotherham 1877 1904 Sinking from 1877 to 1881.
Meadow Hall Sheffield 1921 1927 May be the same as Meadow Hall at Rawmarsh which was closed from 1904 to 1920
Meal Hill Holmfirth, Huddersfield 1877 1881 Working in 1854?
Medhurst Kippax, Leeds 1891 1908 Standing 1904 to 1908
Medhurst (a) Kippax, Leeds 1902 1913 Standing 1909 to 1913.
Mellor Hill Flockton, Wakefield 1904 1905
Meltham Holmfirth, Huddersfield 1864 1873
Meltham Holmfirth, Huddersfield 1903 1903 May have been called Greens End from 1904.
Melton Silkstone Smithies, Barnsley 1929 1930 Abandoned June 2nd 1930
Merchant Fields Cleckheaton 1873 1892 Sinking from 1873 to 1878. Near Brookhouse Iron Works.
Methley Junction Methley, Leeds 1854 1902 Sunk to Haigh Moor about 1845 and to the Beeston in 1900. Called Methley from 1854 to 1860.
Methley Park II Methley, Leeds 1966 5.5 miles SE of Leeds and 4 miles WNW of Castleford
Mexborough Sheffield 1957 1959
Micklefield Micklefield, Leeds 1854 1887 See Peckfield from 1888 onwards
Middle Lane Clayton, Bradford 1893 1903 J. Thornton 1893 to 1898 and Clayton Brick & Stone Co. from 1898 to 1903.
Middle Woolhouse Southedge, Hipperholme 1896 1902 Not listed after 1897. Shepherd & Bentley
Middlecliffe Penistone 1855 1878
Middleton Middleton, Leeds 1854 1887
Middleton Broom Middleton, Leeds 1888 1968 Closed on 17/05/1968.
Middleton Broom, New Middleton, Leeds 1928 1945 From 1928 to 1945 it was used as a pumping station for Middleton Broom.
Middleton Main Middleton, Leeds 1876 1892 Sinking from 1876 to 1878.
Middleton, Beeston Park Middleton, Leeds 1888 1899
Middleton, Little Middleton, Leeds 1888 1901
Middleton, Middleton Main Middleton, Leeds 1888 1899
Middleton, New Pit Middleton, Leeds 1901 1925 Closed 1925 and used as a Pumping Station from 1927 to 1945.
Midgelden Brick Works Dulesgate, Todmorden 1884 1887
Midgelden Pasture Todmorden 1930 1937 NGR = Fire Clay Works
Midgelden Pasture No.2 Todmorden 1932 1944 Abandoned January 1935. Discontinued November 1944.
Midgelden Pasture No.3 Todmorden 1943 1944 Discontinued November 1944.
Midhope Stones Sheffield 1873 1878 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Midland Pit Rothwell, Leeds 1909 1914 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. A Ventilating shaft from 1910 to 1914 (at least)
Mill Wyke, Bradford 1874 1887 Sinking from 1874 to 1875. Not listed 1876 to 1881.
Mill Dam Thornhill Edge, Dewsbury 1953 1957
Mill Dam Opencast Middlestown 1953 1957
Mill Hill Burton-in-Lonsdale 1909 1929 Abandoned September 1914, plan 7118. To be reopened. Abandoned October 1929
Milnes Beeston, Leeds 1884 1887
Milnthorp Wakefield 1855 1877
Minerva Sheffield 1905 1913 Abandoned 1908. Worked 1910 to 1912. Abandoned March 1913.
Mirfield Mirfield, Dewsbury 1854 1889
Mirfield Moor Mirfield, Dewsbury 1863 1931 Sunk 1882 to 1885? Abandoned June 1931.
Mirfield, Dark Lane & Calder Ravensthorpe, Wakefield 1927 1931 Abandoned June 1931. Employment includes Mirfield Moor.
Mitchell Main Darfield, Barnsley 1871 1956 Sinking from 1871 to 1877. Closed on 26/07/1956 and used as a Pumping Station from 1965 to 1988.
Mitchell Main Darfield, Barnsley 1965 1988 Closed on 26/07/1956 and used as a Pumping Station from 1965 to 1988.
Mold Green Huddersfield 1897 1897
Monckton Main Nos.1, 2 & 5 Havercroft, Barnsley 1875 1947 Sinking from 1875 to 1876. Called New Monckton Nos.1, 2 & 5 from 1948.
Monckton Main Nos.3 & 4 Havercroft, Barnsley 1913 1947 No.3 Shaft began sinking from 30/09/1913 to 03/03/1915. No.4 sinking 05/04/1923 to 21/05/1924. Called New Monckton Nos.3 & 4 from 1948.
Monk Bretton Monk Bretton 1867 1968 Sinking in 1867. Closed on 26/04/1968.
Moor Gleadless, Sheffield 1929 1945
Moor End Silkstone Silkstone Common, Barnsley 1921 1948 Worked c1921 to 1924. Reopened in 1947. Moorend Silkstone Opencast = 1949-1952
Moor Hole Mosbrough, Sheffield 1855 1900 Sunk 1855, closed c1900. Used as a Pumping Station in 1925.
Moor House Barnsley 1869 1885
Moor Lane Highburton 1872 1882
Moor Side Mosbrough, Sheffield 1943 1992 Developed from December 1943 when the neighbouring Dent Main – opened in 1927 – became uneconomic. Last coal raised 28/02/1992.
Mooredge Totley, Sheffield 1937 1938 Development in 1937 and discontinued in 1938.
Moorend Cawthorne 1948 1911 Abandoned
Moorend Stainborough, Barnsley 1893 1912
Moorend II Opencast Silkstone Common, Barnsley 1948 1956
Moorend Silkstone Opencast Silkstone Common, Barnsley 1949 1952
Moorgarth Ingleton, Settle 1863 1877 Pits worked here were flooded in 1829. Sinking from 1863 to 1864. Closed from 1869 to 1873.
Moorhouse Barnsley 1855 1872
Moorland Gildersome, Leeds 1873 1880 Sinking from 1873 to 1880.
Moorside Wortley, Leeds 1933 1933 Abandoned December 1933
Moorside Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1887 1903
Moortown Leeds 1874 1883 Sinking from 1874 to 1880.
Morley Morley, Leeds 1855 1860
Morley (a) Morley, Leeds 1861 1883
Morley (b) Morley, Leeds 1861 1877
Morley (d) Morley, Leeds 1855 1860
Morley Main Morley, Leeds 1855 1908 Given as Morley from 1855 to 1859. Sunk around 1854 closed on 23/07/1909.
Morley West End Morley, Leeds 1876 1897 Continues as West End from 1898 until May 1933. Abandoned October 1937.
Mosborough Moor Mosbrough, Sheffield 1936 1936 Discontinued June 1936. Abandoned June 1938.
Mosley’s Skelmanthorpe 1915 1916 Not worked. Owner dead.
Moss Ganister Nos.1 & 2 Dore, Sheffield 1934 1938 Abandoned April 1941.
Moss Level Lofthouse, Pateley Bridge 1920 1920 Abandoned
Mossdale Gill Wensleydale 1877 1883 Standing in 1883
Mottram Wood Barnsley 1908 1944 Abandoned September 1945
Mount Brighouse 1897 1899 Longbottom & Barker. Earlier workings, back to the 1880’s, shown on Thornhill Estate plans.
Mount Osborne Barnsley 1854 1883 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Mount Pleasant Ossett, Wakefield 1871 1871 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Mount Vernon Barnsley 1861 1892
Mountain End Halifax 1854 1874
Muffitt Lane Gomersal 1870 1887
Myers Lane Loxley, Sheffield 1874 1928 Sinking from 1874 to 1878. Abandoned May 8th 1928. Briefly reopened in 1937?
Myrtle Hill Handsworth, Sheffield 1873 1873 Sinking
Myrtle Spring Handsworth, Sheffield 1873 1876 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Myrtle Springs Intake, Sheffield 1918 1921 Discontinued August 1921.
Mytholme Southowram, Halifax 1890 1905 Abandoned in 1905.
Mytholme, New Northowram, Halifax 1947 1956 +1960 & 1961
Mytholme, Old Northowram, Halifax 1886 1905 Plan No.4790 – 36 Yard Band abandoned April 7th 1905.
Nab End Boothtown, Halifax 1855 1860 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Nab End Brighouse 1898 1902 Collins & Morris
Nab End Brighouse 1898 1905 Sunderland & Mellors; H. Mellors & Sons 1902 onwards
Nab Lane (Moor) Rotherham 1916 1918
Near Hill Barnsley 1922 1922 Abandoned December 1922.
Near Low Park Birstall, Dewsbury 1873 1875 Sinking from 1873 to 1875.
Needle Eye Denby Grange, Wakefield 1868 1872
Needless Hall Lane Head, Brighouse 1897 1901 Cookson & Ellis; J. Cookson (1901)
Needlewood Keresforth 1919 1924
Needlewood No.2 Dodworth, Barnsley 1924 1934 Discontinued December 1932 and abandoned January 1934
Netherfield Rawmarsh, Rotherham 1874 1884 Sinking from 1874 to 1876.
Netherton (a) Netherton, Wakefield 1876 1923 Included British Oak from 1918 to 1923.
Netherton (b) Drighlington, Leeds 1917 1923 See Gildersome. Abandoned 16/05/1925.
Netherton No.2 Drighlington, Leeds 1924 1925 Abandoned 14/09/1925.
Netherton Opencast Drighlington, Leeds 1961 1964
Nethertown Drighlington, Leeds 1855 1914 Not listed from 1873 to 1891. Abandoned July 1914.
Nethertown (a) Drighlington, Leeds 1873 1883 Sinking from 1873 to 1891.
Nethertown (b) Drighlington, Leeds 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Neville Hill Osmondthorpe, Leeds 1854 1884 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
New Bank (a) Halifax 1878 1884
New Bank (b) Halifax 1878 1884
New Brampton Rotherham 1891 1902 not working in 1902.
New Carlton Flockton Moor, Wakefield 1914 1915
New Crown Point Drighlington, Leeds 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1877.
New Dale Rawmarsh 1901 1901 Abandoned
New Farm Southowram, Halifax 1923 1927 S. Marshall & Sons. Not worked in 1923. Abandoned 1927.
New Gawber Hall Barnsley 1854 1861 Sunk prior to 1869 – also called Smithy Bridge
New Ground Huddersfield 1861 1910 Standing 1905 to 1909 and abandoned in 1910. There was a Copperas House nearby.
New Hall Middleton, Leeds 1855 1872
New Hall (a) Middleton, Leeds 1869 1903 Abandoned in 1903.
New Hall (b) Elland, Halifax 1878 1945 Discontinued September 1943. Fireclay, Halifax 36 Yard Band, abandoned 27/04/1945, plan 14006.
New Hall Quarry Elland, Halifax 1949 1951
New Holland Wilsden, Bradford 1921 1926 Abandoned 03/09/1926.
New Ingleton Ingleton, Settle 1912 1936 Sinking began in 1912 (the shafts were completed in 1914) by the New Ingleton Colliery Company Ltd. (W.C. Blackett; Charlsaw & Sacriston Colliery Co. Ltd – Sacriston, Co. Durham). Discontinued March 1936. Abandoned on 16/08/1940.
New Inn Clayton West, Huddersfield 1914 1927 Abandoned 18/03/1927.
New Lane Drighlington, Leeds 1873 1877 Sinking from 1873 to 1877.
New Lane Gildersome, Leeds 1932 1935 J. Lloyd liquidator. Abandoned May 1935
New Mills Huddersfield 1854 1854
New Monckton No.4 South Hiendley 1970 1988
New Monckton No.5 Notton, Barnsley 1948 1951 No.5 Shaft
New Monckton Nos.1 & 2 Royston 1848 1966 Sinking as Monckton from 1875 to 1878 and became New Monckton in 1901. Closed 03/12/1966.
New Monckton Nos.1 & 6 Royston 1954 1966 Nos 1 & 2 were sunk in 1875. No.3 was sunk in 1915 about 1.5 miles to the NE of Nos.1 & 2. No.4 was sunk next to No.3 in 1924. No.5 was sunk in 1927 about 1.5 miles NW of No.1 and was redundant in 1954. No.6 Shaft was being sunk in 1954.
New Monckton Nos.3 & 4 South Hiendley 1948 1966 Called Monckton Main Nos.3 & 4 before 1948. No.3 Shaft was sunk from 1913 to 1915. No.4 was sinking from 1923 to 1924. Closed on 03/12/1966. No.4 Shaft was a Pumping Station from 1970 to 1988.
New Mytholme Hipperhome, Bradford 1903 1962 Fireclay, 36 Yard Band, abandoned 12/07/1962, plan 15207.
New Oaks Stairfoot 1903 1909 Sinking from July 1867 to July 1870 and abandoned in 1909.
New Oaks Barnsley 1845 1909 Shown on 1st edition OS 1/10560 sheet as ‘Oaks’, but called ‘Barnsley Main’ on the 1904 OS map. Abandoned in 1909. NB The Old Oaks Colliery also became Barnsley Main at a later date (c1900?).
New Peace Huddersfield 1910 1923 Included Fieldhouse from 1913 to 1924. Abandoned 29/01/1924.
New Plumbley Plumbley, Sheffield 1952 1966
New Road Northowram, Halifax 1897 1906 Saville Holmes
New Road Liversedge, Dewsbury 1861 1867
New Road Thornton, Bradford 1912 1923 Reopening old shaft
New Royd Head Saddleworth 1856 1860
New Sharlston Normanton 1865 1877 See Sharlston. Sunk to Haigh Moor in 1865 and the Silkstone in 1898.
New Silkstone Cawthorne 1935 1968 Discontinued June 1936. Includes New Silkstone Opencast from 1949 to 1950.
New Sovereign Dodworth, Barnsley 1901 1908 Sunk 1862. Standing 1903 to 1908. Clarke’s Old Silkstone Collieries.
New Speedwell Staincross 1923 1933 Discontinued January 1933
New Speedwell, No.2 Emley, Wakefield 1911 1935 Standing in 1911. Discontinued 05/11/1927. Standing 1928 to 1935. Abandoned November 1935
New Stubbin Rawmarsh, Rotherham 1913 1978 Sinking 1913 to 1920. Closed 06/07/1978.
New Thornton Thornton, Bradford 1898 1903
New Victoria Wakefield 1855 1860
New Winning Sheffield 1864 1887
New Winning Ingleton, Settle 1831 1857 Sunk by Joseph Hunter and reached the Four Foot Coal (at 80 yds) in January 1831 and the Six Foot Coal in June 1834. It became part of the (later) Wilson Wood Colliery and closed in 1857 – abandonment plan No.2132.
Newbiggin Tankersley, Sheffield 1918 1920
Newbiggin Tankersley, Sheffield 1888 1894
Newbiggin New Mill, Huddersfield 1922 1922
Newfield Ingleton, Settle 1871 1876 Sinking in 1871 and 1872. Four Foot Coal at 82 feet and Six Foot Coal at 156 feet.
Newhill Wath upon Dearne 1873 1886
Newman Road Sheffield 1912 1912 May be Newman Silkstone
Newman Silkstone Sheffield 1911 1911
Newmarket Adwalton, Leeds 1854 1887
Newmarket (a) Bradford 1854 1854
Newmarket (b) Birkenshaw, Bradford 1873 1920 Sinking from 1873 to 1876. Discontinued c1918. Abandoned in 1920
Newmarket (c) Stanley, Wakefield 1854 1897
Newmarket Silkstone Stanley, Wakefield 1836 1983 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet. Called Clive Pit. Sunk Sunk between 1836 and 1837. Closed on 30/09/1983.
Newmarket, Nelson Pit Stanley, Wakefield 1896 1897
Newmarket, Spencer Pit Stanley, Wakefield 1888 1913
Newmarket, Swithens Rothwell, Leeds 1902 1921 Abandoned March 1921.
Newmillerdam Newmillerdam, Wakefield 1929 1982 Began as Nineveh Colliery and closed in March (or December?) 1982.
Newton Wakefield 1854 1860
Newton Lane Stanley, Wakefield 1888 1897
Newton Main Pontefract 1861 1879
Ninevah Crigglestone, Wakefield 1921 1929 Discontinued March 1928 and abandoned February 1929. Became Newmillerdam Colliery.
Norcliffe Southowram, Halifax 1924 1925
Norcliffe Lane Southowram, Halifax 1924 1926 A. Binns
Norfolk Chapeltown 1880 1901
Norfolk & Smithy Wood Thorncliffe, Sheffield 1902 1931 Continues as Smithy Wood from 1932 to 1973.
Norr Hill Wilsden, Bradford 1841 1869 Pre 1841
Norristhorpe Liversdge, Dewsbury 1892 1892
North Bierley (a) Bradford 1854 1880
North Bierley (b) Bradford 1854 1880
North Cliffe Shipley, Bradford 1854 1877
North Gawber Mapplewell 1854 1987 Sinking 1850 to 1852 and closed in December 198). Darton merged with North Gawber in 1948 and the Darton Section closed in August 1948. One of the two surface drifts driven in 1960 was extended and by 1984 was bringing all output to the surface.
North Selby Escrick, Selby 1979 1997 Merged with Stillingfleet and closed in July 1997.
North Staveley Aston, Sheffield 1870 1905 Sunk in 1864. May have become Aston
North Wing Bradford 1855 1860
North Wood Tong, Bradford 1918 1925 Discontinued. Abandoned 1925. Receiver = J. Barker, Dudley Hill.
Northfield Kirkburton, Huddersfield 1920 1921 Abandoned October 14th 1921.
Northfield Ossett, Wakefield 1896 1917 Abandoned 1917.
Northorpe Mirfield, Dewsbury 1854 1875
Nortonthorpe Clayton West, Huddersfield 1888 1913 Abandoned October 1913
Nortonthorpe Scissett 1888 1913 Abandoned October 1913.
Norwood Norwood, Bradford 1865 1943 Sunk to Top Hard in 1865 and to the Deep Soft in 1916.
Norwood Green Norwood Green, Bradford 1929 1959 Sinking in 1873. Closed April 1959. The shaft at this mine, which also had a drift, was earlier called Flathers Pit. There is a picture of making the new drift into Norwood Green c1929 – in the Telegraph & Argus 05/10/1987.
Norwood Green Norwood Green, Bradford 1855 1869 120 ft to Black Bed.
Norwood Green Norwood Green, Bradford 1873 1880 Sinking from 1873 to 1876.
Nostell Nostell, Wakefield 1854 1987 According to the NCB Statistics Department the mine was sunk in 1860. Closed 23/10/1987.
Nunbrook Mirfield, Dewsbury 1879 1903 Abandoned in 1903.
Nunnery Sheffield 1961 1988 Sinking from 1860 to 1864. Was a Pumping Station from 1961 to 1988.
Nunnery Sheffield 1860 1953 Sinking from 1860 to 1864 and closed August 1953. Was a Pumping Station from 1961 to 1988. Not listed as Nunnery until c1890 so it may have had another name.
Nunnery, Handsworth Sheffield 1901 1925 Sinking from 1901 to 1902. Might be High Hazels
Nunthorpe Great Ayton 1909 1927 Not worked 1915 to 1918
Oak Wood Mirfield, Dewsbury 1882 1884
Oakenshaw Rhodes, Bradford 1854 1890 Not listed from 1861 to 1877.
Oakroyd Birkenshaw, Bradford 1877 1887
Oaks Stairfoot, Barnsley 1854 1896 Oaks, Old from 1897 to 1898.
Oaks Farm Darton, Barnsley 1919 1937 Abandoned in February 1920. Discontinued May 1936. Abandoned April 1937. Abandoned August 1945
Oaks Farm Opencast Barugh, Barnsley 1948 1961
Oaks, New Stairfoot, Barnsley 1897 1898
Oakwell Adwalton, Leeds 1872 1893 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Oakwell (a) Morley, Leeds 1855 1878
Occupation Mirfield, Dewsbury 1876 1877 Sinking in 1876.
Ogden Lane Nos.1 & 3 Brighouse 1904 1939 H. Mellors. 43 years. Closed 1939. Working plans suggest mine started 1904. Listing begins 1909, continues to 1946, but working was discontinued in December 1939. Not more than 25 men employed. Plan located only for earliest period.
Old Burtersett Hawes 1907 1916 Reopened Aug. 1907
Old Flockton Emroyd, Wakefield 1886 1894
Old Gawber Barnsley 1856 1863
Old Hall Roberttown, Liversedge 1874 1896 Sinking from 1874 to 1883.
Old Hall Liversedge, Dewsbury 1904 1912 Abandoned 1911.
Old Holmfield Pit Boothtown, Halifax 1947 1948
Old Mill Pit Barnsley 1855 1883
Old Oaks Barnsley 1838 1899 Old Oaks – first sunk 1838 – site later occupied by Barnsley Main. Explosion – 12 & 13th December 1866 killed 334 plus 27 rescue workers. A Pumping Station from 1904 to 1918.
Old Oaks Barnsley 1901 1918
Old Roundwood Ossett, Wakefield 1853 1966 Called Roundwood Colliery before 1901 and thereafter called Old Roundwood. Sunk in 1853 and closed in April 1966.
Old Silkstone Dodworth, Barnsley 1855 1899 Also see Dodworth. Sunk to Silkstone prior to 1862 and to Whinmoor in 1927.
Old Silkstone Main Worsbro’ Park, Barnsley 1855 1884
Old Sovereign Dodworth, Barnsley 1965 1969
Old Tarn Saddleworth, Oldham 1873 1873
Old Town Barnsley 1873 1876
Oldfieldnook Cleckheaton 1861 1863
Olive Branch Mexborough, Rotherham 1855 1860
Orchard Handsworth, Sheffield 1927 1932 Abandoned April 1932
Orchard Lane Beighton, Sheffield 1988 1988 Pumping Station
Orchard’s Head Pontefract 1901 1941 Includes Eccleshill Sand Mine in 1915 and 1916.
Orgreave Treeton 1855 1981 Sunk to Barnsley in 1851 and the Silkstone in 1889-90. Closed in October 1981.
Orgreave Opencast Treeton 1953 1955
Osmondthorpe, Railway Pit Osmondthorpe, Leeds 1854 1928 Abandoned September 1928.
Osset Common Wakefield 1855 1860
Ossett Ossett, Wakefield 1854 1880
Oughtibridge Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1861 1899
Ouslethwaite Worsborough, Barnsley 1923 1924
Outcrop Halifax 1918 1962 Mainly a Fireclay mine. Hard Bed, abandoned 01/07/1962, plan 15206.
Owlet Hall Drighlington, Leeds 1855 1872 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Ox Close Ossett, Wakefield 1873 1881 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Ox-Bow Leeds 1966 4 miles SE of Leeds – opencast
Oxlee Hepworth, Holmfirth 1879 1897
Ozzings Shelley, Huddersfield 1874 1881 Sinking from 1874 to 1878.

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