Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

National Tramway Museum and open-air heritage village occupying a former Victorian limestone quarry on the edge of the Derbyshire hills.

Former Elsecar New Colliery site retaining the world's oldest steam engine in situ, a Scheduled Ancient Monument now open to visitors at Elsecar Heritage Centre.

Former West Cumbrian hematite iron mine, last deep iron ore mine in Europe, with Grade II listed pithead complex now occupied by Florence Arts Centre.

Former coal colliery at Dilhorne in Staffordshire, closed in 1965, with surviving concrete headgears now owned by the Foxfield Railway, which operates heritage steam trains to the site.

Multi-award-winning heritage museum and the largest preserved tin mining site in Britain, managing an underground tour and surface complex of an active mine closed in 1990.

Scheduled Monument steel tandem headgear from an 1864 colliery, the last deep coal mine site in Shropshire, now within a naturist club and grounds at Priorslee.

Former fluorspar mine near Rookhope retaining County Durham's last surviving steel winding headframe, saved from demolition in 2017.

Former Whitehaven coal colliery on the Cumbrian coast, with surviving scheduled monument engine house and No. 5 shaft headframe, previously operated as a museum that closed in 2016.

Former deep coal mine near Doncaster, closed in 2015, with two Grade II listed steel and concrete headstocks surviving on a vacant site with heritage redevelopment proposals pending.

Victorian colliery site near Elsecar, Barnsley, preserved as a scheduled monument with surviving winding and pumping engine houses and concrete headgears, maintained by volunteer Friends group.