Burnley Coalfield information

(secondary coordinates) The Burnley Coalfield is the most northerly portion of the Lancashire Coalfield. Surrounding Burnley, Nelson, Blackburn and Accrington...

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The coalfield on the western side of the Pennines is divided into two parts separated by the Rossendale anticline. To the north-east is the Burnley Coalfield...

18th century also saw the rapid development of coal mining on the Burnley Coalfield: the drift mines and shallow bell-pits of earlier centuries were replaced...

last deep mine operating on the Burnley Coalfield. The Burnley Coalfield, separated from the South Lancashire Coalfield, is in the form of an oval bowl...

Bank Hall Colliery was a coal mine on the Burnley Coalfield in Burnley, Lancashire near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Sunk in the late 1860s, it was the...

History of Burnley Football Club. Burnley F.C. ISBN 978-0955746802. Williamson, Iain A. (1999). "The Burnley Coalfield". British Mining No. 63 Memoirs 1999...

cotton towns in central Lancashire. Oswaldtwistle is part of the Burnley Coalfield and had a number of coal mines such as Aspen Colliery 53°45′07″N 2°23′59″W...

cases troops marched from Burnley Barracks and the violence ceased with their arrival. Colne is on the edge of the Burnley Coalfield and coal was being mined...

opened to Clayton-le-Moors in 1801. The town lies at the centre of the Burnley Coalfield, and the canal was routed through the town to provide transportation...

/ 53.766°N 2.414°W / 53.766; -2.414 (Rishton Colliery) on the Burnley Coalfield was begun by P.W. Pickup Ltd in late November 1884 and mining continued...

2°20′49″W / 53.773°N 2.347°W / 53.773; -2.347 (Huncoat) on the Burnley Coalfield was sunk by George Hargreaves and Company between 1890 and 1893. Before...

on the Burnley Coalfield in Burnley, Lancashire, England. Sunk in the late 1860s, it was linked to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Burnley to Todmorden...

Hargreaves Collieries, was by far, the largest mine owner on the Burnley Coalfield, continuing the operate until coal mining in the United Kingdom was...

valleys. The Lancashire Coalfield, largely in modern-day Greater Manchester, extended into Merseyside and to Ormskirk, Chorley, Burnley and Colne in Lancashire...

J R; Tiddeman, R H; Ward, J C; Gunn, W (1875). The geology of the Burnley Coalfield and of the country around Clitheroe, Blackburn, Preston, Chorley,...

Measures Group form the Lancashire Coalfield which includes both the Burnley Coalfield and the South Lancashire Coalfield. Both were economically important...

utilise coal from the neighbouring Huncoat Colliery and the wider Burnley Coalfield. The station was 2.5 miles north-east of Accrington. The power station...

companies National Grid (UK) Huncoat and Whitebirk, other stations on the Burnley Coalfield "Shuttleworth Mead Business Park". Retrieved 11 February 2010. "Lancashire...

present-day farms until the early 18th century. Considered part of the Burnley Coalfield, evidence of bell pits, a primitive method of mining, can still be...

considering that it ran too far to the north, missing key towns and the Wigan coalfield. A counter-proposal was produced by John Eyes and Richard Melling, improved...

butter cross possibly of late medieval origin. Considered part of the Burnley Coalfield, coal may have been mined here from the mid 15th century, but certainly...

for England. Retrieved 27 November 2020. "Ice house at Towneley Hall - Burnley", Heritage at Risk Register, Historic England, retrieved 27 December 2020...

Portsmouth, Portsmouth. "Northern Anthracite Coalfield of Pennsylvania" (implying there is a Southern Anthracite Coalfield of Pennsylvania) Sevon, W. D., compiler...

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...