The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield. Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests...

manufacture of textiles. The Lancashire coalfield was also exploited, with many collieries opening. By 1971 Lancashire had a population of 5,118,405...

for the manufacture of locks and hinges, and it also sits on the Lancashire Coalfield, and was a coal mining district. The name Ashton derives from Old...

Coalfield Lancashire Coalfield Burnley Coalfield South Lancashire Coalfield Manchester Coalfield Oldham Coalfield St Helens Coalfield Wigan Coalfield...

The Manchester Coalfield is part of the South Lancashire Coalfield, the coal seams of which were laid down in the Carboniferous Period. Some easily accessible...

Industrial Revolution in the 19th century; the town lies on the Lancashire Coalfield. Skelmersdale is situated in a small valley on the River Tawd. The...

measures of the Carboniferous period, which unlike those in the Lancashire Coalfield are missing the top layers. Here there are outcrops of the Middle...

headgear and engine house on the Lancashire Coalfield. Astley Green Colliery exploited deep coal seams of the Manchester Coalfield underneath the peat bog known...

of Lancashire at which five or more people were killed. Mining deaths have occurred wherever coal has been mined across the Lancashire Coalfield. The...

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...

lengthy NUM-linked sit-in protest, as the last deep mine in the Lancashire Coalfield. Clock Face Country Park is situated on the site of one of the former...

coal-dependent industries of copper smelting and glass. Sitting on the South Lancashire Coalfield, the town was built both physically and metaphorically on coal; the...

manufacture of cotton textiles, aided by the exploitation of the Lancashire coalfield. The region was also an engineering and scientific centre, leading...

to the surface. More women were employed in this capacity on the Lancashire Coalfield than in any other area. In the early coal industry women and girls...

bought by Diamond Bus North West in 2015. South Lancashire held the largest area of the Lancashire Coalfield during the coal mining era of the counties history...

subsoil of clay and the underlying rocks are the coal measures of the Lancashire Coalfield. Standish has a population of 13,278 people, based on the 2011 census...

Lancaster Lancashire Coalfield List of collieries in Lancashire since 1854 List of mining disasters in Lancashire Scheduled monuments in Lancashire "High...

was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield that opened in 1844 in the Agecroft district of Pendlebury, Lancashire, England. It exploited the coal seams...

a new retail shopping park 'Crown Point North'. Denton is on the Lancashire coalfield and once had a number of collieries. These included the Ellis Colliery...

Collieries were collieries situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield, England. The company which operated the collieries was Richard Evans...

bunker coal for steamships in the port, transported from the South Lancashire Coalfield. A high-level railway opened in 1857 to transport coal directly to...

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

sandstones, shales and ironstones of the Middle Coal Measures of the Lancashire Coalfield and coal and cannel were extensively mined. The Great Haigh Fault...

The Oldham Coalfield is the most easterly part of the South Lancashire Coalfield. Its coal seams were laid down in the Carboniferous period and some easily...

sequences of sandstones, mudstones and coal seams that form the Lancashire Coalfield. There is no history of coal mining in Tottington, although most...

the 1790s because it was an important centre of coal mining in the Lancashire coalfield. The 1790s has been characterised as a period of mania for canal...

was always described as being in Lancashire, and was the last deep coal mine operating in the Lancashire Coalfield upon closure. The sinking of the shafts...

was Lawrence's in 2009. Also, given its location on the edge of Lancashire Coalfield, Chorley was vital in coal mining. Several pits existed in Duxbury...

up of New Red Sandstone and pebble beds. The coal measures of the Lancashire coalfield extend south to Monton and Winton. On the surface deposits of clay...

operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the mid 19th century in Over Hulton and Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. The...