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Working freeminer coal colliery open to the public with guided underground tours, museum, and café in the Forest of Dean.
Coleford · Gloucestershire · England (Forest of Dean Coalfield)
coal
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.
St Just · Cornwall · England (Cornwall and West Devon Mining District)
tin and copper
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.
Youlgreave · Derbyshire · England (Derbyshire Orefield)
fluorspar
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.
Sheldon · Derbyshire · England (Derbyshire Orefield)
lead
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.
Ashover · Derbyshire · England (Derbyshire Orefield)
fluorspar
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.
Mansfield · Derbyshire · England (Nottinghamshire Coalfield)
coal
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.
Snailbeach · Shropshire · England (Shropshire Lead Mining District)
lead
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.
Coalville · Leicestershire · England (Leicestershire Coalfield)
coal
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.
Brea · Cornwall · England (Cornwall and West Devon Mining District)
tin
Grade II listed pithead buildings surviving from a major South Shields colliery closed in 1940, now preserved and converted to office use.
South Shields · Tyne and Wear · England (Durham Coalfield)
coal