Showing 37
sites
matching England
56 – Hopewell Colliery
Operational mine
Working freeminer coal colliery open to the public with guided underground tours, museum, and café in the Forest of Dean.
22 – Levant Mine
Museum site
National Trust site on the Tin Coast housing the world's only Cornish beam engine still in steam on its original site, with guided tours of the 1919 man engine disaster shaft.
8 – Long Rake Mine
Partial mine site - headframe and associated buildings
Former calcite and fluorspar mine near Youlgreave in Derbyshire, with surviving twentieth-century headgear and winding engine house; underground extraction ceased in 1981 while surface processing continues.
9 – Magpie Mine
Mine core
Best-preserved nineteenth-century lead mine in Britain, near Sheldon in Derbyshire, a freely accessible Scheduled Monument managed by the Peak District Mines Historical Society.
58 – Overton Mine
Partial mine site - headframe and associated buildings
Disused lead and fluorspar mine near Ashover with surviving headframe, winder, and cage remaining in situ at a private site.
10 – Pleasley Colliery
Museum site - headframes and associated buildings
Scheduled Monument and heritage museum preserving twin steam winders, steel headgear, and chimney from a Victorian colliery closed in 1983.
18 – Snailbeach Lead Mine
Mine core
Scheduled Monument and publicly accessible heritage site preserving the most complete collection of lead mine buildings in England, managed by the Shropshire Mines Trust at Snailbeach.
15 – Snibston Colliery
Repurposed site - headframes and associated buildings
Surviving scheduled ancient monument colliery headstocks and historic buildings from an 1831 Stephenson colliery, now within Snibston Colliery Park with café, nature reserve, and heritage tours.
24 – South Crofty Mine
Development / restart project
Ancient Cornish tin and copper mine at Pool, now undergoing active dewatering by Cornish Metals ahead of planned reopening.
53 – St Hilda Colliery
Repurposed site
Grade II listed pithead buildings surviving from a major South Shields colliery closed in 1940, now preserved and converted to office use.