Coal mining search by area
Area-level coal-mining context from the Mining Remediation Authority — whether an outcode sits in a Development High or Low Risk Area, and what a CON29M coal-authority search covers — for the UK's recorded coalfields. Coal risk is recorded property by property, so use these for the area picture, then check the exact address with a property report.
South Wales Coalfield
Taff and Rhondda valleys town at the mouth of the South Wales steam-coal field.
Rhondda Fach/Fawr junction, dense deep-mining and drift-mining history.
Rhondda Fawr colliery town, site of the 1910 riots over the Cambrian pits.
Upper Rhondda Fawr steam-coal district with numerous former collieries.
Rhondda Fach mining village, scene of repeated 19th-century pit disasters.
Cynon valley steam-coal town ringed by former deep mines.
Cynon valley colliery town, home of the former Deep Duffryn pit.
Taff Bargoed valley, site of the former Deep Navigation colliery.
Head of the Taff valley, iron and coal heartland of the northern outcrop.
Upper Taff coalfield fringe with deep-mining legacy.
Rhymney valley town, former Bargoed and Britannia collieries.
Rhymney valley mining district near Ystrad Mynach.
Southern rim of the coalfield, Aber and Rhymney valley pits.
Ebbw valley mining town, former Celynen collieries.
Sirhowy valley coal district, Oakdale and Markham collieries nearby.
Ebbw Fach valley, one of the most intensively mined South Wales valleys.
Sirhowy valley iron-and-coal town on the northern outcrop.
Head of the Ebbw valley, deep-mining and steelworks heritage.
Rhymney valley colliery village, former Elliot and White Rose pits.
Upper Swansea valley anthracite district on the western outcrop.
Neath and Dulais valleys, anthracite and steam-coal collieries.
Amman valley anthracite town on the western coalfield.
Yorkshire Coalfield
Central Barnsley, capital of the South Yorkshire deep-coal field.
Cudworth, Monk Bretton and Athersley former pit villages.
Grimethorpe, Brierley and Cudworth — famous Grimethorpe colliery district.
Dearne valley pit town between Barnsley and Wath.
Elsecar and Hoyland, early Fitzwilliam-estate collieries.
Dearne valley (Bolton-on-Dearne, Wath, Goldthorpe) deep-mining district.
Lower Dearne valley colliery town near Manvers.
Maltby and Bramley, eastern concealed-coalfield collieries.
Staveley and Renishaw, Derbyshire–Yorkshire coal and iron district.
Don valley, former Cadeby and Denaby Main collieries.
Doncaster concealed coalfield, Harworth colliery district.
Featherstone and Ackton Hall colliery district near Pontefract.
Frickley, South Kirkby and South Elmsall deep-mining villages.
Lower Aire/Calder coal town, Fryston and Wheldale collieries.
North Notts/South Yorks concealed coalfield, Manton and Steetley pits.
Notts & Derbyshire Coalfield
Ashfield concealed-coalfield towns, numerous former collieries.
Mansfield, hub of the Nottinghamshire deep-coal field.
Sherwood, Mansfield and Warsop Main colliery district.
Shirebrook and Langwith, Derbyshire–Notts border collieries.
Eastwood (D.H. Lawrence's coal-town), Moorgreen and Brinsley pits.
Amber valley coalfield, Swanwick and Pye Bridge collieries.
Amber valley deep-mining district, Denby and Ormonde pits.
Erewash valley coal town on the Derbyshire–Notts field.
Chesterfield, market town at the heart of the Derbyshire coalfield.
Whittington and Brimington, concealed-coalfield colliery districts.
Clay Cross and Grassmoor, early Stephenson-era collieries.
Bolsover, Markham and Clowne — major Derbyshire deep mines.
Clay Cross coalfield fringe on the Derbyshire outcrop.
Erewash valley coalfield edge between Nottingham and Derby.
Leicestershire & South Derbyshire Coalfield
Durham & Northumberland Coalfield
Hetton and Houghton, early Wearside deep-mining collieries.
Hetton and Easington Lane pit villages on the Durham field.
East Durham colliery villages south of Durham City.
Derwent valley coal-and-iron district around Consett.
North-west Durham coalfield, Tanfield and Beamish collieries.
South-west Durham coalfield, Auckland and Eldon collieries.
West Durham coalfield, Brancepeth and Willington pits.
Mid-Durham coalfield, Dean and Chapter and Mainsforth collieries.
East Durham coast, Seaham and Vane Tempest undersea collieries.
East Durham coast, Horden, Easington and Blackhall undersea pits.
South-east Northumberland coalfield, Bedlington and Choppington.
South-east Northumberland former pit villages, Nelson and Dudley pits.
Northumberland coast coal port, Bates and Cambois collieries.
'Biggest mining village in the world' — the Ashington coal group.
Northumberland coast, Woodhorn colliery district.
Lancashire Coalfield
Wigan, historic capital of the Lancashire coalfield.
Ince and Hindley, dense Wigan-basin deep-mining district.
Southern Wigan coalfield, Garswood and Bryn collieries.
Leigh and Bickershaw, major Lancashire deep-coal collieries.
Atherton and Tyldesley coalfield, Chanters and Gibfield pits.
Astley and Tyldesley former collieries on the Manchester coalfield.
St Helens coalfield, Sutton Manor and Bold collieries.
Haydock and Rainford, northern St Helens coalfield.
Westhoughton coalfield, site of the 1910 Pretoria pit disaster.
Scottish Central Coalfield
Fife coalfield, the 'Little Moscow' pit towns of Cowdenbeath and Kelty.
Central Fife coalfield, Lochgelly and Bowhill collieries.
West Fife coalfield, Comrie and Valleyfield collieries.
Lanarkshire coal-and-steel district on the central Scottish coalfield.
Lanarkshire coalfield town east of Motherwell.
Monklands iron-and-coal district, 'Iron Burgh' collieries.
Monklands coalfield, Airdrie and Plains former pits.
Upland Lanarkshire coalfield, Shotts iron and coal district.
Ayrshire coalfield, Barony and Ben colliery district.
West Lothian coalfield and oil-shale fringe.
West Lothian coal-and-shale district.