1 Holly Park was an open cast coal mine in 1956. Old workings ?17th century and 18th century. Finds in Birmingham Art Gallery and Warwick Museum.
Holly Park Mine, the site of a possible mine where coal would have been extracted during the Post Medieval period. The site lies south of Merevale Lane.
1 The River Stour has been diverted between SP2050 and SP2050, to form a water course for Atherstone Mill (WA1345). The channelling of the river is almost certainly contemporary ...
The site of a watercourse associated with the Medieval/Post Medieval watermill at Atherstone on Stour. The watercourse is still visible as an earthwork. It is situated 300m north west of Lion's Pond.
1 A destruction level with 18th century material probably comes from the east range, which was demolished in 1780. Limestone blocks from the north wall are thought to have ...
Excavations at Coughton Court uncovered layers dating from the Imperial period. The features were related to the destruction of the east range and infilling of the moat, a former bridge over the moat, a garden feature and a leat.
1 Manganese workings with underground access, building foundations, disturbed ground and possible shafts within dense woodland. Features survived in 1980s but could not be located in 1996 due to dense ...
The site of Hartshill Green manganese mine dating from the Post Medieval period. It was situated east side of Hartshill Hayes Country Park.
1 The first shaft of the Coventry Colliery was sunk in 1911. The colliery’s main shafts lay on the land of Newland House Farm in Exhall, but the buildings, the ...
The site of Coventry Colliery, where coal was mined. It opened during the Imperial period and was situated 500m north west of Keresley United Reform Church.
For 33 years the extensive coalfield of Warwickshire had been free from serious disaster. Tragically this impressive record was marred by a calamity that took place at the Exhall Colliery ...
(An account of the disaster can be found in this article)
The circumstances of the disaster were investigated by the Coroner and jury at Coventry County Hall.
The first witness was Dr. ...
Travel to Baddesley Ensor and Baxterley nowadays, and the area is the epitome of rural Warwickshire. Its mining heritage is not forgotten, however, even though the mine closed in 1989. ...
Owned by the Phillips family of Ansley Hall
Young boys were employed in Warwickshire coalfields in the 18th and 19th centuries.
6d a day in 1729
A coal account book in the Newdigate archives refers to the use of boys ...
1 The earthwork is a leat feeding the moat, running north-east from the Small Brook; the overflow ran across the road then through the village.
The remains of a Medieval leat survive as an earthwork at the southern end of Admington village. The leat fed water from the Small Brook in to a moat at this lcoation.
1 Mine shaft marked on OS map of 1914.
2 Mine shaft marked on OS map of 1923-38.
The site of a mine shaft which was in use during the Imperial period. It was situated 100m north of Heath End Road, Chilvers Coton.