Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former colliery site retaining the scheduled lattice girder headframe and listed 1930s engine house, now part of a small industrial estate near Rhostyllen, Wrexham.

Big Pit: National Coal Museum, an operating underground heritage attraction within the Blaenavon UNESCO World Heritage Site, open to the public since 1983.

Former anthracite colliery preserved as a museum, housing the largest working winding engine in Wales and two original lattice steel headframes, currently closed pending remedial works.

Dolaucothi Gold Mines: the only known Roman gold mine in Britain, now a National Trust heritage attraction open for underground guided tours in Carmarthenshire.

Former colliery site preserving the Grade I listed Hetty Pit engine house and headframe, home to the oldest working deep-mining winding engine in Wales, under active volunteer restoration.

Former tinplate works site preserving the oldest surviving tinplate complex in Europe, closed as museum in 2017 and currently under heritage review.

Former Lewis Merthyr Colliery now operating as Rhondda Heritage Park, preserving the oldest surviving headframes in Wales and offering underground guided tours.

Former lead mine site now a country park and heritage attraction preserving the restored Meadow Shaft engine house and processing remains in the Clywedog Valley.

Former copper mine and the world's largest open-cast copper workings in the 18th century, now an open-access heritage trail and SSSI on the multicoloured summit of Anglesey.

Former deep colliery site with Grade II* listed headframes and engine hall, now partially redeveloped into community park with housing conversion under way.