About This Location: The lease for the sinking of Wellsway Colliery was drawn up on December 31st 1828. Between November 4th 1829 and November 20th 1933 a sum of £7000…
Chilcompton
About This Location: New Rock colliery was sunk around 1819. The pit wound all its coal up a shaft 1,182 feet deep with a 4feet 6inches diameter well into nationalisation…
Radstock
About This Location: The two main collieries close to the centre of Radstock were Middle Pit and Ludlows pit. Middle Pit at Combe End few details are known of its…
Haydon
About This Location: The Kilmersdon Colliery Company signed the lease with Lord Hylton on Christmas Day 1873, sinking of the shaft began on February 1874. The first shaft was for…
Midsomer Norton Station
About This Location: Midsomer Norton railway station was on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway between Bath Green Park and Shepton Mallet. The station opened in 1874. In 1948 nationalisation…
Midsomer Norton
About Somerset Coal: We believe that Somerset coal was first discovered by the Romans. They were in the West Country 43AD, and there are references to it being used at…
Midsomer Norton – High Street
About This Location: Welton Hill Colliery was the third and last of the Duchy collieries to be sunk in the Welton area. The sinking of the shaft began in 1812,…
Paulton
About This Location: In the early 1800s, there were at least 9 working coal mines. Paulton hill was the deepest at 266 yards deep At Simons Hill colliery haycock boilers…
High Littleton
About This Location: There were two winding shafts, one square with wooden guides the other round with a 10ft diameter and wire guide ropes. The second may have been sunk…
12 – The Town Park
12 – The Town Park Take a moment to step into our new Town Park, where the echoes of history intertwine with the vibrant present. It may look peaceful now,…