Anyone know this mine

[Anthony Britner]

There are no shafts marked  by the red squiggle on the Ian's map through. And as a colliery  the coal authority  should have it marked as a level  if that's what it is.

[ilt]

The scribble isn't really very helpful as a location and I don't know that area well having only visited it to see if there were any remains of the limekilns and brick kiln.
There is a single shaft marked on Mastermap at 323782, 362203 but that shouldn't be the portal from the photo (which would be recorded as a 'level' not a 'shaft' if the cartographer thought it was a mine-related).
Out of interest this is the only one recorded by the OS after 1901 suggesting that the others were filled by then and it is recorded as disused.

Looking at the public Coal Authority website is also not particularly helpful as the map isn't available at a useful scale nor does it show what IS there, rather it's a record of what HAS BEEN there.

There was also a colliery railway which went into the area circled by Loz but it was out of use by 1869 (the Oak Pits line it joined was a road by that time).


Flintshire Archive has plans and sections of the coal mine from the late 1800's (possibly from around 1868 when one of the Forster family, well known engineering family for several generations, surveyed it). For anyone interested in the mine a trip to the Archive would seem a good starting point.

Shafts recorded by the OS before 1870
324020, 362264
323782, 362203
323898, 362236
323709, 362238
323989, 362267

[Loz]

Yea it was just summit I’ve seen from the road passing it looks like a mine An I had seen there was a colliery there once apon a time

[Loz]

What you say is interesting but I’ve been for a walk about that wooded area in the map and you can clearly see shafts all over that area
An yea going to records office is a good idea but I have no idea what to look for or where to look I’m more of a look on maps an go and have a look get out in the fresh air type of person than being a book worm
ILT what you say is really interesting but your delivery is poor there’s no need to be stand offish mate

[Loz]

Would it be possible to get the link for the bore hole maps please they sound really helpful in my hunt for stuff to go An look at and have a mooch about