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Where
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Where
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1. Ford Hill 2. Oates Royd 3. Ambler Thorn 4. Shibden Head 5. Windy bank 6. Aincar 7. .Brow Pit 8. Old Holmfield 9. Red Gin 10. Mortons New 11. Howcans 12. Cold Harbour |
13. Plantation 14. Turners 15. Nab End 16. Boothtown Colliery 17. Clarkes 18. Dam Head 19. Shibden Mill 20. Four Lane End 21. Quarry House 22. Oates and Green (Horley Green) 23. Charlestown 24. Ellen Royd |
25. Beacon 26. Godley Clay Pit 27. Lister (Shibden Hall) 28. Listerwick 29. Bank Bottom 30. Southowram Bank 31. Swan Bank 32. Marsh Lane 33. Sunny Bank 34. Highfield 35. Walter Clough |
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34. Highfield 36. Cinderhill 37. Windy Wall Nook 38. Siddal Wells 39. Park Nook 40. Exley 41. Park Nook 42. Binns Bottom 43. Ashgrove |
44. Calder 45. New Hall 46. Victoria 47. Tong Royd 48. Storth No.2 49. Ainley Grange 50. Blackley and Woodman 51. Hollins Hey 52. Aitken Flat |
More information about individual mines
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These maps show the location of mines which operated between the beginning of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th century and has been compiled from map evidence, articles written by W.B.Trigg and published by the Halifax Antiquarian Society, a list of abandoned mines held in Bradford Library, a list of mines in the Halifax area held in the records of the Northern Mine Research Society along with information published in the reports of the Mines Inspectors and Parliamentary Commission on the Employment of Women and Children in Mines 1842 and various abandonment plans held in local record offices. The maps only show mines which can be easily identified. |