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Wigan Pits

List of coal mines around Wigan and nearby towns.

Over 300 colliery names and locations.

Colliery/Pit Location

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ABERDEEN COLLIERY Aberdeen Basin on Canal, between Haigh and Blackrod.
ABRAM COLLIERY Bickershaw Lane, Bickershaw.
ACKERS COLLIERY Bickershaw.
ALBERT PIT Bolton House Road, Bickershaw.
ALBERT ENGINE PIT Shevington Lane, Shevington.
ALBERT and VICTORIA PITS Ashfield Park Drive, Standish.
ALBION COLLIERY At back of Leigh Road/Atherton Road, Hindley Green.
ALLIANCE COLLIERY Crompton Street, Wigan.
ALMOND BROOK COLLIERY Almond Brook, Standish.
ALEXANDRA PIT Whelley, Wigan.
AMBERSWOOD COLLIERIES Ince/Hindley.
ANDERTON HALL COLLIERY Blackrod Brow/Blackrod Bypass.
ARBOUR LANE PIT Arbour Lane, Standish.
ARCH LANE COLLIERY Garswood.
ARLEY COLLIERIES Canal Row and Arley Lane, Haigh.
ARLEY HALL COLLIERY Arley Lane, Haigh.
ARLEY MAIN COLLIERY Blackrod.
ASHGROVE PIT Billinge.
ASHTON COLLIERY Between Bryn and Garswood Stations, Bryn.
ASHURST'S PIT Preston Road, Standish.
ASPULL PUMPING PIT Aspull.
ASTLEY COLLIERY Tyldesley.
ASTLEY GREEN COLLIERY Higher Green Lane, Astley.
AYREFIELD COLLIERY Roby Mill.

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BAMFURLONG COLLIERY Canal and West Coast Main Line, Bamfurlong.
BANK HOUSE COLLIERY Tyldesley.
BANKFIELD COLLIERY East of Hindley Green Station. H/Green/W/Leigh.
BARK HILL PIT New Springs.
BARLEY BROOK COLLIERY Gidlow Lane/Park Road, Wigan.
BARTON FOLD COLLIERY Blackrod/Horwich.
BASKET PIT Winstanley.
BAWKHOUSE PIT Red Rock.
BAXTER PIT Winstanley.
BEDFORD COLLIERY South Side of Leigh-Tyldesley line, Leigh.
BICKERSHAW COLLIERY Bickershaw Lane-Bolton House Road, Bickershaw.
BICKERSHAW COLLIERY Plank Lane, Leigh.
BIG PIT Hindley.
BILLINGE LANE COLLIERY
BIRCHINHEADS COLLIERY Billinge.
BIRCHLEY COLLIERY Ashton.
BIRKACRE COLLIERY Birkacre Brow, Coppull.
BIRKETT BANK COLLIERY Chatham Street and Gordon Street, H/Ince.
BISPHAM HALL COLLIERY Orrell.
BLACKCROFT COLLIERY South of the Wigan/Tyldesley line, Westleigh.
BLACKLEY HURST COLIERY Billinge.
BLACKROD COLLIERY Blackrod.
BLAINSCOUGH COLLIERY Coppull.
BOTTLING WOOD PIT Whelley, Wigan.
BOTTOM PLACE PIT H/Ince.
BRADLEY HALL COLLIERY Bradley Lane Ind Est, Standish.
BRADSHAW HALL COLLIERY Hall Lane, Aspull/Hindley.
BRIDGE PIT Side of Canal, New Springs, Wigan.
BRINKS COLLIERY Earl of Balcarres R/way, Haigh/Blackrod.
BRINSOP HALL COLLIERY Hindley/Blackrod line, nr Dicconson Ln, Aspull.
BRITANNIA PIT Britannia Bridge, Lower Ince.
BROADFIELD COLLIERY North of Wigan/Tyldesley line, Westleigh.
BROAD OAK COLLIERY Thomas Street, Hindley Green.
BROOKSIDE COLLIERY Off Bickershaw Lane, Platt Bridge.
BROOMFIELD COLLIERY Bradley Lane, Standish.
BROWNHEATH COLLIERY Billinge.
BROWNLOW HILL PITS Billinge.
BRYN HALL COLLIERY On Lancashire Union Railway, Bryn.
BRYN MOSS COLLIERY On Canal arm, Leigh Branch Canal, Bryn.
BULL RING COLLIERY Blackrod.
BUGLE HORN COLLIERY Swan Lane, Hindley Green.
BYE WASH PIT Haigh.

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CALIFORNIA PIT Hall Lane, Pennington Green, Hindley.
CASTLE DRIFT Wigan Road, Billinge.
CASTLE HILL COLLIERY Castle Hill Road, Hindley.
CARR COMMON COLLIERY Carr Common Road, Hindley Green.
CASSICAR COLLIERY Dalton.
CANNELL HOLLOWS PIT Haigh Lower Plantations, Wigan.
CHADDOCK LANE COLLIERY Tyldesley.
CHAPEL COLLIERY Wigan Town Centre.
CHANTERS COLLIERY Off Tyldesley Road, Atherton.
CHANTERS FIELD COLLIERY Blackrod.
CHEQUERBENT Brancker Street, Westhoughton.
CHESHIRE HOLE COLLIERY Camberwell Crescent area, Whelley, Wigan.
CHISNALL HALL COLLIERY Preston Road, Standish/Coppull.
CHURN PIT Whelley.
CLAPGATE COLLIERY Marus Bridge area, Wigan.
CLARKE'S COLLIERIES Orrell.
CLEWORTH HALL COLLIERY Tyldesley.
CLOSE LANE COLLIERY Off Leigh Road, Hindley Green.
COMBERMERE COLLIERY Combermere Lane, Tyldesley.
COPPULL COLLIERY East side of West Coast Main line, nr Coppull Station.
COW LEE LANE COLLIERY Cow Lee Lane, Westhoughton.
CRAWFORD PITS Crawford Avenue, Aspull.
CRIPPLEGATE COLLIERY Shevington Moor.
CROOKE HALL COLLIERY Crooke Road, Crooke.
CROP PIT Shevington.
CROW ORCHARD COLLIERY Deakin Street/Banner Street, Lower Ince.

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DAIRY PIT Side of Canal, Haigh Upper Plantations.
DARK LANE COLLIERY Dark Lane, Blackrod.
DEAN PIT Arbour Lane, Standish.
DOG WALK PIT Haigh Upper Plantations.
DOUGLAS BANK COLLIERY Between Canal and Woodhouse Lane, Wigan.
DOWNHALL GREEN COLLIERY Off Wigan St Helens Line, Bryn.
DOWNSHOOTS PIT Standish.
DUXBURY PARK COLLIERY Wigan Lane, Coppull/Chorley.

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EAST CANNEL PITS Off Manchester Road and Belle Green Lane, H/Ince.
EATOCKS PIT Daisy Hill, Westhoughton.
EDGE GREEN COLLIERY Off Edge Green Lane, Nr Golborne.
EDITH AND MABEL PITS Nr Stoney Lane Bridge, Liverpool Rd, Hindley.
ELLERBECK COLLIERY Wigan Lane, Coppull/Chorley.
ELMS COLLIERY Walter Scott Ave, Whitley, Wigan.

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FIR TREE HOUSE COLLIERY Off Warrington Rd, Spring View.
FIVE ACRE PIT Aspull.
FOGGS FOLD COLLIERY Close to Millers Lane, Platt Bridge.
FOTHERSHAW PIT Dukes Row, Aspull.

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GARSWOOD HALL COLLIERY Bryn Road, Bryn.
GAUNTLEY PIT Smethurst Road, Billinge.
GERMANS PITS Off Billinge Rd/Little Lane,W/Mesnes/Pem.
GIANTS HALL COLLIERY Giants Hall Rd, Standish Lower Ground.
GIBFIELD COLLIERY Coal Pit Lane, Atherton.
GIDLOW AND SWINLEY COLLIERY (Rylands Pits) Walkden Ave, Swinley, Wigan.
GIDLOW PITS Top end of Gidlow Lane, Wigan.
GIDLOW LANE COLLIERY Gidlow Lane and Mesnes Park, Wigan.
GILBERTS CLOSE PIT Haigh.
GIN PIT Ley Road, Gin pit village, Tyldesley.
GODFREY PITS Haigh Lower Plantations, Wigan.
GOLBORNE COLLIERY Church Street, Golborne.
GORSES PIT Haigh/Blackrod.
GRAMMAR PIT Off Park Rd and Close Lane, Hindley.
GRANGE COLLIERY Near Leyland Park, Hindley.
GREAT BOYS COLLIERY Tyldesley.
GREAT STONE COLLIERY Westhoughton.
GREENS PIT Meadow Pit Lane, Haigh.
GREENSLATE COLLIERY North of Crow Orchard Rd, Shevington.
GREEN BARN COLLIERY Blackrod.
GULLET PIT Haigh.
GYPSY PITS Hindley.

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HARDYBUTTS PIT Hardybutts, Scholes, Wigan.
HALIBURTONS COLLIERY Hindley.
HAWKLEY COLLIERY Marus Bridge, Wigan.
HEART O 'TH MEADOW PIT (Later Renamed Priestners Colliery) Wigan Rd, Leigh.
HEDGE PIT Aspull.
HENFOLD COLLIERY Tyldesley.
HESKIN COLLIERY Heskin, Coppull.
HEWLETT PITS Hart Common, Westhoughton.
HEYFIELD PIT West Leigh.
HIC BIBI COLLIERY Hic Bibi Lane, Coppull.
HIGH BROOKS COLLIERY Brocstedes Rd, North Ashton, Wigan.
HIGHFIELD PIT Off Toddington Lane, Aspull.
HILLOCK PIT Atherton.
HILTON HOUSE COLLIERY Chorley Rd, Aspull/Blackrod.
HINDLEY DEEP PITS Highfield Rd, Hindley.
HINDLEY FIELD COLLIERY Bickershaw Lane, Bickershaw.
HINDLEY GREEN COLLIERIES Off Atherton Rd, Hindley Green.
HINDLEY HALL COLLIERY Hall Lane, Hindley.
HOLLINS HEY PIT Hindley.
HOLME HOUSE COLLIERY Holme Terrace, Wigan.
HORSE PASTURE PIT Aspull.
HOSIER HOUSE COLLIERY. Petticoat Lane, Higher Ince.
HOWE BRIDGE COLLIERY Atherleigh Way and Lovers Lane, Leigh.
HUSSEY HOUSE COLLIERY Park Road, Hindley.
HUSTLERS PITS Gidlow Lane, Beech Hill, Wigan.

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INCE HALL COLLIERIES Higher and Lower Ince.
INCE MOSS COLLIERY Off Cemetary Rd, Lower Ince.
INDUSTRIOUS BEE COLLIERY Belle Green Lane, Higher Ince.
JACK OF HEARTS COLLIERY Hindley.
JACKSONS PIT Leigh.
JACKSONS PITS Orrell.
JOHN PIT Off Wigan Lower Rd, Standish Lower Ground.
JOHNSONS PIT Meadow Pit Lane, Haigh.
KAYS COLLIERY Under W.C.M.L. Actons Walk, Wigan.
KELLEY PIT Hindley.
KIRKLESS COLLIERIES Kirkless/New Springs area, Wigan.
KING WILLIAM COLLIERY Platt Bridge, Wigan.

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LADY LANE PIT Lady Lane, Goose Green.
LADIES LANE COLLIERY Gidlow Street, Hindley.
LAMBERHEAD GREEN COLLIERY Pemberton.
LANGTREE COLLIERY Standish.
LARK PIT Haigh.
LEYLAND GREEN COLLIERY Winstanley Rd, Leyland Green, Wigan.
LEYLAND GREEN DRIFT Winstanley Rd, Leyland Green, Wigan.
LILLY LANE COLLIERY Off Bolton Rd, Bryn Gates, Wigan.
LINDSAY PITS Whelley, Wigan.
LITTLE WESTWOOD COLLIERY Lower Ince, Wigan.
LONG LANE COLLIERY Bryn Rd,Ashton.
LONG LANE COLLIERY Long Lane, Hindley.
LOSTOCK COLLIERY Lostock Lane, Westhoughton.
LOSTOCK MOSS COLLIERY Lostock Lane, Westhoughton.
LOVERS LANE COLLIERY Lovers Lane, West Leigh.
LOWER HALL PIT Off Firs Lane, West Leigh.
LOWER FARM PIT
LOW GREEN COLLIERY Liverpool Rd, Platt Bridge.
LOW HALL COLLIERY Liverpool Rd, Platt Bridge.

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MAINS COLLIERY Bolton Rd, Stubshaw Cross.
MARUS BRIDGE COLLIERY Goose Green, Wigan.
MAYPOLE COLLIERY Park Lane, Abram.
MEADOWS COLLIERY Frog Lane, Wigan.
MEADOWS HOUSE COLLIERY Woodhouse Lane, Wigan.
MEADOW PIT Meadow Pit Lane, Haigh.
MESNES COLLIERY Mesnes Park, Wigan.
MILL PIT Billinge Road, Pemberton.
MOOR PITS Off Haigh Rd, Aspull.
MORRIS LANE PIT Off Higher Lane, New Springs, Wigan.
MOSS PIT Aspull.
MOSS HALL COLLIERIES Ince.
MOSS HOUSE COLLIERY Goose Green, Wigan.

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NEWFOUNDLAND COLLIERY North End of Worthington Lakes, Standish.
NEW HALL COLLIERY Off Ince Green Lane, Higher Ince.
NEW LESTER COLLIERY Tyldesley.
NEWTOWN COLLIERY Scott Lane, Newtown, Wigan.
NEW WASH PIT Higher Lane, Aspull.
NEW YARD PIT Shevington.
NIXONS PIT Almond Brook, Standish.
NORLEY HALL COLLIERY Ormskirk Road, Pemberton.
NOOK COLLIERY North Lane, Tyldesley.

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OAK COLLIERY Howe Bridge/Atherton.
ORRELL COLLIERIES Orrell.
ORRELL HALL COLLIERY Spring Road, Orrell.
ORRELL HOUSE COLLIERY Orrell.
OWENS PIT Smiths Lane, West Leigh.

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PARADISE FARM COLLIERY Shevington Lane, Shevington.
PARK BROOK PIT Off Shevington Lane, Shevington.
PARK HALL COLLIERY Between M6 and A49, Charnock Green.
PARK LANE COLLIERY Landgate area, Ashton.
PARK COLLIERY Gibbons Rd, Garswood.
PARK COLLIERY Westleigh.
PARK PIT Haigh Plantations.
PARK PIT Standish Wood Lane, Standish Lower Ground.
PARSONAGE COLLIERY Clifton Street, Leigh.
PATCHCROFT PIT Pennington Lane, Red Rock.
PEACOCK PIT Meadow Pit Lane, Haigh.
PEELWOOD COLLIERY Tyldesley.
PEMBERTON COLLIERY Foundry Lane, Pemberton.
PEMBERTON HOUSE COLLIERY Park Hall Road, Charnock Richard.
PENNYGATE PIT Hall Lane, Hindley.
PERRYS PIT Aspull.
PEWFALL COLLIERY Liverpool Road, Ashton.
PICKLEY GREEN COLLIERY Smallbrook Lane and Lovers Lane, Leigh.
PICKLEY HEY COLLIERY Smallbrook Lane and Lovers Lane, Leigh.
PLATT BRIDGE COLLIERY Victoria Road, Platt Bridge.
PLATT LANE COLLIERY Off Durham Street, Whelley.
PLATTS PIT Westhoughton.
PONY DICK COLLIERY Billinge Rd, Highfield, Wigan.
PORTERS WOOD PIT Ackhurst Lane, Gathhurst.
PRIESTNERS COLLIERY (Formerly Heart O' Th Meadow Coll) Wigan Rd, Leigh.
PRITAREAN PIT Hindley.
PRETORIA PITS Off Newbrook Rd, Hulton.
PROSPECT PITS Wigan Rd, Standish.

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QUAKER HOUSE COLLIERY Winstanley Rd, Leyland Green, Wigan.

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RAILWAY COLLIERY W.C.M.L. Delph Lane, Charnock Richard.
RED MOSS COLLIERY Blackrod.
RIDING LANE COLLIERY Riding Lane, Stubshaw Cross, Wigan.
RIGBY HILL PIT Off Vicarage Rd, Blackrod.
RIMMERS PIT Spencer Road, Whitley, Wigan.
ROBIN HILL DRIFT Brookfield Rd, Shevington Moor, Standish.
ROBIN HILL PIT Robin Hill Lane, Standish.
ROGER LANE PIT Haigh.
ROSE BRIDGE COLLIERY Manchester Rd, Higher Ince.
ROUND HOUSE COLLIERY Durham St, Whelley.
ROUGH HEY PIT Haigh.
ROYAL CHARTER COLLIERY Welch Whittle, Coppull.
RYLANDS PITS (Gidlow and Swinley Coll) Walkden Ave, Swinley, Wigan.

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SANDY BEDS PIT Haigh.
SAW MILL PIT Higher Ince.
SCARISBRICK PIT Shevington.
SCOTT LANE COLLIERY Scott Lane, Aspull.
SHALEY BROW COLLIERY Billinge.
SHEVINGTON COLLIERY Shevington Lane, Shevington.
SHEVINGTON MOOR PITS Shevington Lane, Shevington.
SMITHS LANE COLLIERY Smiths Lane, Bickershaw.
SNAPES PIT Gregorys Siding, West Leigh.
SNYDALE HALL COLLIERY Chew Moor Lane, Westhoughton.
SOVEREIGN PITS Sovereign Fold Road, West Leigh.
SPRINGFIELD COLLIERY Off Leigh Road, West Leigh.
SPRINGS PITS Warrington Rd, Springs Branch line, Lower Ince.
STANDISH HALL DRIFT Elnup Wood, Shevington.
STARKIE PIT Westhoughton.
STONES COLLIERY Ashton.
STONE HEY PIT Haigh.
STONE HOUSE COLLIERY Off Leigh Rd, West Leigh.
STONE HOUSE COLLIERY Warrington Rd, Worsley Mesnes, Wigan.
STRANGEWAYS HALL COLLIERY Liverpool Road, Hindley.
ST GEORGES COLLIERY Off Elliot Street, Tyldesley.
SUMMERSALES PIT Billinge Rd. Highfield, Wigan.
SWAN LANE COLLIERY Swan Lane, Hindley Green.
SWINLEY COLLIERY Kenyon Rd/Walkden Ave East, Wigan.
SWIRE PITS Back of Duddon Close, Standish.

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TAG PIT Haigh.
TAYLOR PIT Taylor Road, Hindley Green.
TAYLOR PIT Off Wigan Lower Rd, Standish Lower Ground.
TUCKERS HILL PIT Tuckers Hill Brow, Haigh.
TUNNEL PITS Off Wigan Lower Rd, Standish Lower ground.
URCHINSNAPES PIT Standish.
VENTURE PIT Billinge Road, Highfield.
VICTORIA COLLIERY Victoria Ave, Bickershaw.
VICTORIA COLLIERY Lurdin Lane, Standish.
VICTORIA AND ALBERT PITS Ashfield Park Drive, Standish.
VILLAGE PIT Preston Road, Standish.

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WALL HEY PIT Haigh Road, Aspull.
WALTHEW HOUSE COLLIERY Pemberton.
WASH PIT Haigh.
WATER HEYS COLLIERY Between Greenough Street and School Lane, Scholes.
WELCH WHITTLE COLLIERY Town Lane, Coppull.
WESTHOUGHTON COLLIERY Church Street, Westhoughton.
WESTLEIGH COLLIERY South of Smiths Lane, Westleigh.
WEST LEIGH LANE COLLIERY Westleigh Lane, Leigh.
WESTWOOD HALL COLLIERY Off Westwood Lane, Lower Ince.
WHARTON HALL COLLIERY Tyldesley.
WELCH PITS (Bottom Place Pits) Off Ince Green Lane, Lower Ince.
WHELLEY COLLIERY East of Whelley Rd, Wigan.
WIGAN JUNCTION COLLIERY Off Bickershaw Lane, Bickershaw.
WILLIAM PIT Off Meadow Pit Lane, Haigh.
WINDY ARBOUR COLLIERY Aston Road, Winstanley.
WITHINGTON HALL PIT Off Hall Lane, Hindley.
WOOD PIT Back of Upper Wood farm, Standish Lower Ground.
WOODS PIT Bottom of Eskdale Ave, Swinley, Wigan.
WOODSHAW PIT North of Withington Lane, Aspull.
WORSLEY MESNES COLLIERY (Owd Nats Pit) Worsley Mesnes Drive, Wigan.
WORTHINGTON HALL COLLIERY North of Bradley Lane, Standish.

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YEW TREE COLLIERY Tyldesley.
YORKSHIRE PIT South of Standish Wood Lane, Standish Lower Ground.

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