Coal Mine Entry
The Coal Authority has records of over 175,000 mine entries within the UK captured in the National Coal Mining database, derived from sources including abandonment plans, geological and topographical plans. Coal mining activity is recorded as far back as the 13th century, but prior to 1872 there was no requirement to deposit abandonment plans. It is therefore believed there may be many unrecorded mine entries of which the Authority has no information or knowledge. These entries do not, therefore, appear within the Authority's national dataset as described here.
dataset
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MINE_ENTRIES
eng
EPSG
27700
environment
Mine Entry
Coal Mining
Shaft
Adit
Underground
Mining Report
Ground Stability
Downloadable Data
-11.1956282
9.0461269
57.967916
50.3099793
Great Britain
publication
2023-10-12
continual
The Mine Entries spatial dataset was created during the early 1980s in readiness for the automated provision of coal mining reports that was introduced locally in 1985 and established nationally in 1989. A team of qualified National Coal Board (NCB) / British Coal Corporation (BCC) mining surveyors were engaged to rationalise the mining and other source plans, reference the same to Ordnance Survey National Grid or County Series and subsequently capture the data into the first computerised mining report system (MRS). The spatial datasets were subsequently migrated into the Authority's current ESRI based GIS in 2011. The data has been systematically updated since.
Shapefile
10.7
Data available under a Coal Authority data licence. See https://www.gov.uk/guidance/licensable-coal-mining-data.
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The Coal Authority
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pointOfContact
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pointOfContact
2023-11-14