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Wigan Coalfield. This is an interactive map, point to a location with your mouse to see basic information, click to go to that page. The society is pleased to acknowledge Geoff Hayes’ donation of his collection of comprehensive notes, diagrams and photographs relating to Wigan collieries and associated engineering works.
Oct 4, 2022 · Former coal mines that have transformed into Wigan and Leigh ’s popular green spaces have been nationally recognised as nature reserves. What were once colliery areas known for smoke and soot...
- George Lythgoe
List of collieries in Lancashire since 1854. The Lancashire Coalfield was one of the most prolific in England. The number of shafts sunk to gain coal number several thousand, for example, in 1958, Wigan undertook a survey of old shafts and located 500. In 1995 following several years of redevelopment across the Wigan Metropolitan Borough by the ...
A short history of coal mining in Wigan and Leigh by Mining Historian Ian Winstanley on behalf of the Carbon Landscape partnership Wigan is built on coal. There is evidence that the Romans dug coal in the area where it outcropped but the first written record of coal in the area comes from court records in 1246 when there is a case
The Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Ltd, when constituted, was the largest joint stock company in Britain. The inspiration for the formation of the new company is said to have come from Elias Dorning, a Wigan mining engineering consultant.
The company operated Bercune pit, an iron ore mine near Dalton in Furness until 1898. [3] In 1930, The Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Ltd and the Pearson & Knowles Coal & Iron Co. Ltd combined their coal mining operations to establish the Wigan Coal Corporation.
Home. Articles. A History of the Wigan Coalfield & Coal Mining in Hindley. Read. Coal Mining in Hindley. Another extensive an in-depth investiagtion, by Chris Southworth, of mining in Hindley, with maps and google maps detailing the location of many collieries. Read. Image by kind permission of WHAMM.
