The Warwickshire Coalfield extends between
Warwick
Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined with Leamington Spa and Whi ...
and
Tamworth in the
English Midlands
The Midlands (also referred to as Central England) are a part of England that broadly correspond to the Kingdom of Mercia of the Early Middle Ages, bordered by Wales, Northern England and Southern England. The Midlands were important in the Ind ...
. It is about from north to south and its width is around half that distance. Its western margin is defined by the 'Western Boundary Fault'. In the northeast it abuts against steeply dipping
shales of
Cambrian age. The larger part of the outcrop at the surface consists of the
Warwickshire Group of largely coal-barren
red beds. Until its closure in 2013, the
Daw Mill
Daw Mill was a coal mine located near the village of Arley, near Nuneaton, in the English county of Warwickshire. The mine was Britain's biggest coal producer. It closed in 2013 following a major fire. It was the last remaining colliery in the W ...
mine near
Arley Arley may refer to:
Places England
* Arley, Cheshire, a village
** Arley Hall, Cheshire
* Arley, Warwickshire, a village
* Upper Arley
Upper Arley () is a village and civil parish near Kidderminster in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershi ...
within the coalfield, was Britain's biggest coal-producer in the 21st century.
Principal seams
The principal coal seams within the productive
Lower and Middle Coal Measures include (in stratigraphic order i.e. youngest/uppermost first):
Middle Coal Measures
* Half Yard
* Four Feet
* Thin Rider
* Two Yard
* Bare
* Ryder
* Ell
* Nine Feet
* High Main
* Smithy (Low Main)
Lower Coal Measures
* Thin
* Seven Feet
* Trencher
* Yard
* Deep Rider
* Double
* Upper Bench (or Top Bench)
* Bench Thin
* Lower Bench
* Stumpy
* Stanhope
The Two Yard, Thin Rider, Ryder, Ell, Nine Feet, and High Main merge as one massive bed of coal known as the Thick Coal in parts of the coalfield.
Collieries
Collieries mining in the Warwickshire Coalfield were:
*Alexandra Colliery
*Alvecote Colliery
*Amington Colliery
*Ansley Hall Colliery
*Arley Colliery
*Baddesley Colliery, closed 1989
*Binley Colliery
*Birch Coppice Colliery, closed 1989
*
Coventry Colliery, also known as ''Keresley Colliery'', closed 1991
*Craven Colliery
*
Daw Mill Colliery
Daw Mill was a coal mine located near the village of Arley, near Nuneaton, in the English county of Warwickshire. The mine was Britain's biggest coal producer. It closed in 2013 following a major fire. It was the last remaining colliery in the ...
*
Dexter Colliery
*Exhall Colliery
*Griff No 4 Colliery
*Griff Clara Colliery
*Haunchwood Colliery
*Hawkesbury Colliery
*
Kingsbury Colliery
*Newdigate Colliery, closed in 1982
*North Warwickshire Colliery (formerly Pooley)
*Stockingford Colliery
*Wyken Colliery
See also
*
Warwickshire Miners' Association
The Warwickshire Miners' Association was a trade union representing coal miners in the Warwickshire area of England.
In 1885, the Newdegate family leased their Warwickshire coal mine to a Sheffield-based company, who attempted to cut costs by re ...
charity
References
Sources
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Coal mining regions in England
Geology of Warwickshire
Geography of Warwickshire
Carboniferous England
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