Manvers Main


Coal Mine
Worked from 1868 to 1988

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot

Jan 31st, 2025 by BertyBasset



Manvers Complex
East and South Midlands Coalfields
Mexborough
53.5004425, -1.3182549
SE 4532 0063
Private Land
26m
#23,699


  • 1868-1900 Manvers Main Co.
  • 1901-1946 Manvers Main Collieries Ltd
  • 1947-1987 National Coal Board

Publications (3)

  • (1920); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol VII - Lignites, Jet, Kimmeridge oil, England and Wales; 132 pages
  • Hill, Alan; NMRS (2012); British Mining 94 - Coal: A Chronology for Britain; ISBN 0901450 6 85; pp.14,220-221,225.
  • NMRS; British Mining 39 - Memoirs 1989; pp.30.


Manvers Main Colliery (left) on the old Great Central railway line (1950)Manvers Complex



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