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structures are a
colliery, a coal mine is
called a "pit", and above-ground
mining structures are
referred to as a "pit head". In Australia, "
colliery" generally...
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Pentremawr Colliery (or
Capel Ifan
Colliery) was a coal mine,
located in the
Gwendraeth valley in Carmarthenshire,
South Wales. Due to the
angle and depth...
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Windsor Colliery was a coal mine in the
village of Abertridwr, Caerphilly.
Opened in 1895, it
amalgamated with the
Nantgarw Colliery in 1974, and closed...
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Agecroft Colliery was a coal mine on the
Manchester Coalfield that
opened in 1844 in the
Agecroft district of Pendlebury, Lancashire, England. It exploited...
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Albion Colliery was a coal mine in
South Wales Valleys,
located in the
village of Cilfynydd, one mile
north of Pontypridd. The
Colliery was
located along...
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Shotton Colliery is a
village in
County Durham, England. The
civil parish of
Shotton includes Shotton Colliery village and an area to the west,
south and...
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Pendlebury Colliery,
usually called Wheatsheaf Colliery after the
adjacent public house, was a coal mine
operating on the
Manchester Coalfield after 1846...
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Blackhall Colliery is a
village on the
North Sea
coast of
County Durham, in England. It is
situated on the A1086
between Horden and Hartlepool. To the...
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Woolley Colliery is a
village in
Wakefield district in West Yorkshire, England. The
village is near the
border with
South Yorkshire. The
former colliery was...
- A
colliery viewer or coal
viewer was the
manager of a coal mine or
colliery. The term was
mostly used in the late
eighteenth to
nineteenth centuries,...
