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Towneley Colliery

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689: 223: 75:. Brooks and Pickup began coal production from the main shaft, the Alice Pit in late February 1869. For 75 years coal was extracted from the Arley, Dandy, King and Yard mines. The colliery had sidings on either side of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Burnley to Todmorden line, the Copy Pit route. A half-mile long tramway linking it to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal had four tunnels. Boggart Brig Pit beside the A671 Todmorden Road was linked by a tramroad and was also linked underground. The pit was also linked underground to 259: 235: 22: 247: 216:) closed in 1947 and were abandoned in 1949. The colliery closed on 6 March 1949. Its shafts were used for pumping until 1971 when Bank Hall Colliery closed. Little remains of the colliery, a residential development occupies a small part of the site and the rest comprises steep, mossy hillocks and woodland. A small replica brick kiln was built on a hillock to commemorate the colliery's brickworks. 82:
In 1923 the colliery was owned by Brooks & Brooks Collieries and employed 770 men working the colliery which included the Towneley Drift. In 1933 the Towneley Coal & Fireclay Company employed 672 men, 480 of them underground. The colliery produced fireclay as well as coal used for household
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worked the Yard, Dandy and Lower Mountain mines. Its satellite pits, Dyneley Knoll (
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Copy Pit Summit and the collieries formerly served by the Copy Pit route
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In this part of Lancashire a coal seam is referred to as a mine and the
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line which became known as the Copy Pit route and, by tramway, to the
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The remains of Park Pit in an ancient field called the Long Ing.
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The Kilns residential development, covering part of the site.
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This greenspace was the location of the pithead buildings.
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Towneley Colliery was sunk next to Brooks and Pickup's
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The colliery was nationalised in 1947 after which the
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and manufacturing use, coking and for producing gas.
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A re-built coke oven at the Towneley Colliery site.
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coal mine
Burnley Coalfield
Burnley
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Todmorden
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
fireclay
Towneley railway station
Towneley Hall
Bank Hall Colliery
National Coal Board
53°45′14″N 2°12′47″W / 53.754°N 2.213°W / 53.754; -2.213 (Dyneley Knoll)
53°46′16″N 2°13′41″W / 53.771°N 2.228°W / 53.771; -2.228 (Boggart Brig)
53°46′19″N 2°12′36″W / 53.772°N 2.210°W / 53.772; -2.210 (Park)
The Kilns residential development, covering part of the site.
This greenspace was the location of the pithead buildings.
Shaft markers at Boggart Brig.
The remains of Park Pit in an ancient field called the Long Ing.
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GPX (all coordinates)
GPX (primary coordinates)
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coal mine



Copy Pit Summit and the collieries formerly served by the Copy Pit route

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