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  Byers Green Colliery   Byers Green Colliery  

Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines for Byers Green Colliery

Srce
Year
  Plan
No.
  Date
Received
   
1928    R.259D       BYERS GREEN
 
Parishes: Byers Green; Newfield; Hunwick & Helmington. COAL: Main.
 
1928          BYERS GREEN
 
Parish: Byers Green. COAL: Main. Plans held at: North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Date of workings: 1841
 
1892    B12,126       Byers Green
 
Parish: Byers Green. COAL: Brockwell. (Abandoned: Jan 1892). All the mineral being worked out or exhausted
 
1928    2,689    30 Mar 1892    Byers Green, Michael
 
Parishes: Byers Green; Newfield. COAL: Brockwell. (Abandoned: 20 Jan 1892). Mineral exhausted
 
1933    11,019    1933    WESTERTON (BINCHESTER); BYERS GREEN AND NEWFIELD; Barnard; Challies; Gate; Grey; Merrington Lane; Mill; Quarry; Vinovium; Westeron Old (including workings from Black Boy and Leasingthorne)
 
Parishes: Newfield; Byers Green; Whitworth; Whitworth Without; Binchesterl; Pollard's Lands; Old Park; Westerton; Middlestone; Merrington; Merrington Lane; Coundon; Ferryhill. COAL: Beaumont, Harvey, Busty, Five Quarter, High Main, Hutton, Main. (Abandoned: 31 Oct 1932).
 

The plans of abandoned mines are held by the Coal Authority (http://www.coal.gov.uk/) at the following address: The Coal Authority, 200 Lichfield Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 4RG

Sources:

  • 1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986)
  • 1933 Supplement to the Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines (41-44-15-33), published May, 1934
  • Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Coal Mines published in 1928

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