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...
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New Manchester or The City was an isolated mining community on the Manchester Coalfield north of Mosley Common in the Tyldesley township, England. It...
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Bradford Colliery (category Demolished buildings and structures in Manchester)
a coal mine in Bradford, Manchester, England. Although part of the Manchester Coalfield, the seams of the Bradford Coalfield correspond more closely to...
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Peden, J.A. (1995), The Industrial railways of Bolton, Bury and the Manchester Coalfield, Part Two, The Manchester Coalfield, Runpast, ISBN 1-870754-32-8...
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Pit was a coal mine operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the 1840s in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester then in the historic county of Lancashire, England...
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The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield. Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests...
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Kidd, Alan (2006). Manchester: A History. Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 1-85936-128-5. "The Manchester Coalfields" (PDF). Museum of Science...
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Coalfield Lancashire Coalfield Burnley Coalfield South Lancashire Coalfield Manchester Coalfield Oldham Coalfield St Helens Coalfield Wigan Coalfield...
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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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During the Industrial Revolution, the town was a key part of the Manchester Coalfield. Atherton was associated with coal mining and nail manufacture from...
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the Clifton and Kersley Coal Company, at the southern edge of the Manchester Coalfield, working the Middle Coal Measures where they dipped under the Permian...
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Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield before 1869 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...
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total cost of £122 million to improve links from former Manchester Coalfield towns into Manchester city centre, the busway proposal encountered much opposition...
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Pendleton Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after the late 1820s on Whit Lane in Pendleton, Salford, then in the historic...
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Bridgewater Canal (redirect from Manchester Ship Canal (Bridgewater Canal) Act 1907)
the canal brought about a rapid development in coal mining on the Manchester Coalfield west of Worsley. Chaddock pits in the east of Tyldesley were connected...
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the Bridgewater Trustees operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1866 in Mosley Common, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...
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Wet Earth Colliery was a coal mine located on the Manchester Coalfield, in Clifton, Greater Manchester. The colliery site is now the location of Clifton...
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and shales of the Middle Coal Measures of the Manchester Coalfield. In addition to the City of Manchester Stadium and National Cycling Centre velodrome...
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Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Cheshire...
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o't' Church, was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1866 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...
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equivalent to the Arley mine of the Manchester Coalfield. The coal seams dipped in the direction of central Manchester and were broken by numerous faults...
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& Bury Canal passes the area. Pendleton is on the Manchester Coalfield, part of Lancashire Coalfield. In the early days of coal mining seams lying on or...
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J. A. (1995). The Industrial railways of Bolton, Bury and the Manchester Coalfield, Part Two, The Manchester Coalfield. Runpast. ISBN 1-870754-30-1....
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Astley Green Colliery Museum (category Museums in Greater Manchester)
engine house on the Lancashire Coalfield. Astley Green Colliery exploited deep coal seams of the Manchester Coalfield underneath the peat bog known as...
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Shakerley Colliery was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield near Shakerley, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...
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arrived for the day shift. They were working five coal seams of the Manchester Coalfield: the Trencherbone, Plodder, Yard, Three-Quarters and Arley mines...
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"The Industrial Railways of Bolton, Bury and the Manchester Coalfield Part 2: The Manchester Coalfield" by C.H.A.Townley, C.A.Appleton, F.D.Smith & J.A...
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Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1866 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire...
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Colliery) on the Manchester Coalfield, historically in Lancashire which was incorporated into the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England in 1974...
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Bridgewater Trustees operating after 1860 on the Manchester Coalfield in Walkden, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England...
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