page_title: List of collieries in Lancashire since 1854
section_title: Astley
hierarchical_section_title: List of collieries in Lancashire since 1854 / Leigh area / Astley
caption_attribution_description: English: Astley Green Pit gates and headgear in Astley, Greater Manchester, England. Now preserved as a steam heritage and mining heritage centre.
context_page_description: The Lancashire Coalfield was one of the most prolific in England. The number of shafts sunk to gain coal number several thousand, for example, in 1958, Wigan undertook a survey of old shafts and located 500.
  In 1995 following several years of redevelopment across the Wigan Metropolitan Borough by the British Geological Survey, in association with the planning consultants Roger Tym & Partners, the list had grown to over 1000 with no real idea of the total. Similar surveys in Bolton and Manchester have also produced long lists of undocumented shafts.
  The proliferation of mines resulted from its accessibility at the start of the Industrial Revolution and the climate which was ideal for cotton mills. Coal fed the boilers of the cotton mill towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Darwen, Oldham and Rochdale as well as the Rossendale Valley. The first industrial revolution coal mines supplied coal locally and to Liverpool, along the River Mersey via the Sankey Canal. On the Manchester Coalfield, the early collieries were those of the Duke of Bridgewater in Worsley, where the Bridgewater Canal was built to transport coal from his mines to Manchester.
context_section_description: Astley Green Colliery -Sinking 1908, Closed 1970
  Cross Hillock opened after 1866, closed 1887
  Gin Pit Colliery
  Nook Colliery Nook Nos 2, 3 and 4, had four shafts.
caption: Astley Green Colliery Museum
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