| Date |
Colliery |
Open or Closed |
Owners |
| 1702 |
Loscoe sough |
|
|
| |
Langley sough |
|
|
| |
Robey Fields sough |
|
John Fletcher |
| |
Owlgroves, Shipley |
|
|
| |
Swanwick |
sunk |
Obadiah Boot for 31 years |
| 1704 |
Bokay sough |
driven |
|
| |
Whymsey |
sunk |
|
| 1705 |
NW Derbyshire |
|
Ollersett & Beard |
| 1713 |
Denby |
sinking |
Robert & John Fletcher |
| 1715 |
Littlemoor |
sunk |
Chambers |
| |
Newbold Common |
|
|
| |
Whiteley |
|
|
| |
Whittington Moor |
|
|
| 1718 |
Nether Green |
|
|
| 1720 |
Nuthall |
sunk |
J Wolston |
| |
Trowell |
recommenced |
|
| 1723 |
Langley Old |
closed |
|
| |
Langley Common |
|
George Bircumshaw, Kerry |
| 1723-1725 |
Loscoe sough |
|
|
| |
Nuthall |
|
J Wolston |
| |
Selston |
|
|
| |
Smalley, Shipley |
|
Richardson |
| |
Strelley |
|
Firestone |
| 1724 |
Beggarlee |
|
Barber Walker |
| 1726 |
Denby |
|
John Fletcher, for 99 years |
| |
Swanwick |
|
Charles Turner, for 24 years |
| 1734 |
Heanor |
|
Mundy |
| 1738 |
Strelley |
|
Barber Walker |
| 1739 |
Bilborough |
sunk |
|
| |
Brinsley |
sunk |
Barber Walker |
| |
Cossall |
sunk |
|
| |
Kimberley |
sunk |
|
| |
Marehay |
sunk |
|
| |
Ripley |
sunk |
|
| |
Selston |
sunk |
Sir Robert Sutton |
| |
Shipley |
sunk |
Mundy |
| |
Swanwick |
sunk |
Morewood |
| |
Wansley |
sunk |
Saville and Sir Wolston Dixie |
| |
Wollaton |
sunk |
Middleton |
| 1740 |
Denby Old Hall |
Opened |
Lowe |
| 1747 |
Barlborough |
sunk |
Cornelius Heathcote Rode |
| |
Brinsley |
sunk |
Barber Walker |
| |
Chesterfield |
sunk |
Ebenezer Smith |
| |
Cossall |
sunk |
Barber Walker |
| |
Denby |
sunk |
Wm Drury Lowe |
| |
Denby (old Hall) |
sunk |
Jas Wolston |
| |
Eastwood |
sunk |
John Bourne |
| |
Eckington |
sunk |
Richard Wells |
| |
Heanor |
sunk |
Mrs Sutton |
| |
Higham |
sunk |
Miss Willoughby |
| |
Killamarsh |
sunk |
Joseph Butler |
| |
Kimberley sough |
driven |
Lord Stanford Nuthall |
| |
Nuthall |
closed |
Holden, closed by fire (sunk 1720) |
| |
Pentridge |
sunk |
Haslam |
| |
Renishaw Park |
sunk |
Sir Sitwell Sitwell |
| |
Ripley |
sunk |
E Fletcher |
| |
Selston |
developing |
Sir Wolston Dixie and Sir Robert Sutton |
| |
Shipley |
sunk |
Potter & Bourne |
| |
Smalley |
sunk |
T Allen |
| |
Wansley |
sunk |
Wm Fenton |
| |
Wollaton |
sunk |
Lord Middleton |
| 1751 |
Nuthall |
working |
accident |
| 1753 |
Fackley Engine Pit |
sunk |
Peter Webster |
| 1750s |
Alderwasley |
sunk |
Hurt |
| |
Alfreton |
sunk |
Morewood |
| |
Brookhill(Hall) |
sunk |
Coke |
| |
Blackwell |
sunk |
Smith |
| |
Denby |
sunk |
Lowe |
| |
Horseley |
sunk |
Fletcher |
| |
Killamarsh |
sunk |
Jos Butler |
| |
Riddings |
sunk |
Oakes |
| |
Shipley |
sunk |
Miller-Mundy |
| |
Staveley |
sunk |
Barrow |
| |
Swanwick |
sunk |
Turner |
| 1755 |
Furnace pit (Fackley) |
sunk |
Peter Webster |
| 1757 |
Swanwick |
sunk |
Anthony Tissington |
| |
Swanwick New pit |
sunk |
Morewood |
| 1758 |
Nuthall |
working |
accident |
| 1760 |
Hard coal pit |
sunk |
Peter Webster |
| |
Nibland (Skegby) |
sunk |
John Dodsley |
| |
Shuttlewood Common |
sunk |
Stevenson |
| 1761 |
Dirty Hucknall |
closed |
Mellers |
| |
Dirty Hucknall |
sunk |
Mellers |
| |
Hard Coal pit (Skegby) |
sunk |
Dodsley |
| 1763 |
Barlow |
sunk |
John Barnes |
| 1764 |
Hard coal pit |
sunk |
Dodsley |
| 1765 |
Alma Hill |
sunk |
Holdsworth |
| |
Butterley |
sunk |
Ben Outram & Partners |
| |
Kimberley |
sunk |
Middleton? |
| 1767 |
Awsworth |
sunk |
Awsworth Coal Co |
| |
Fackley Lane End |
accident |
Goodwin & Webster |
| |
Fackley Engine Pit |
closed |
Webster |
| |
Nuthall |
sunk |
Lord Middleton |
| |
Strelley |
sunk |
John Thomas Edge |
| 1769 |
Fackley Hard Coal Pit |
sunk |
Webster and Goodwin |
| 1770 |
Hard coal pit |
sunk |
Dodsley |
| 1773 |
Gresley |
sunk |
|
| |
Swadlincote |
sunk |
Sam Fletcher (Heanor) |
| |
Several pits (Langley) |
sunk |
John Bullivant |
| 1774 |
Springwood (Skegby) |
sunk |
Dodsley (Skegby Colliery Co) |
| 1775 & 1776 |
Bilborough |
working |
accident |
| 1776 |
Coopergate |
sunk |
James Fletcher |
| |
Rutland No4 |
sunk |
Rutland Colliery Co |
| |
Sudbrook |
sunk |
Moses Tagg |
| 1779 |
Pinxton |
sunk |
D’Ewes Coke |
| |
Pinxton |
sunk |
Fletcher |
| |
W of Coton |
sunk |
|
| 1780 |
Dirty Hucknall |
sunk |
Mellers |
| |
First Dunsil pit, Fackley |
sunk |
Webster & Goodwin |
| |
Goyte Moss |
sunk |
Robert Longden & Wheeldons |
| |
Granville |
sunk |
Court Granville |
| |
Gresley |
closed |
Sir Nigel Gresley |
| |
Hard Coal pit (Fackley) |
deepened to Dunsil |
Webster & Goodwin |
| |
Hartshay Foundation |
sunk |
Outram |
| |
Hill Top |
sunk |
|
| |
Marehay |
sunk |
|
| |
Pentrich Foundation |
sunk |
Haslam |
| |
Pinxton No1 Sleights |
sunk |
John Coke |
| |
Stanton |
sunk |
Wm Nadin (previous Capt Philip Barnes d 1770) |
| 1781 |
Quarry pit, Fackley |
sunk |
First Dunsil pit, Webster & Goodwin |
| 1782 |
Furnace pit (Fackley) |
closed |
Webster (sunk 1753) |
| |
Swanwick |
sunk |
Duke of Rutland, lease 29½ years |
| 1783 |
Dale |
sunk |
Stanhope |
| |
Newhall |
sunk |
Wm Nadin followed by Stanhope |
| |
Stannyfield |
sunk |
Godfrey Booker & John Cartledge |
| |
Stanton |
sunk |
J & N Nadin |
| 1785 |
Lings |
sunk |
Joseph Butler |
| 1787 |
Oakthorpe (S Derbys) |
sunk |
Joseph Wilkes first beam engine |
| |
Stanton |
sunk |
to Thomas English 21 years |
| 1788 |
Heanor Hall |
closed |
Sam Richardson died 1788 |
| |
Nethermoor Lane |
sunk |
Shirtcliffe Bros (Eckington) |
| |
Ripley Foundation |
sunk |
Outram & Jessop |
| |
Swanwick (Old) |
sunk |
1636, Morewood took over |
| 1789 |
Bramcote Moor |
closed |
|
| |
Swanwick |
working |
Turner sold to Morewood |
| 1790 |
Brampton |
sunk |
John Smith |
| |
Butterley |
opened |
Ben Outram & Co, ancient mines developed |
| |
New Rise Pitt |
sunk |
|
| |
Old Rise Pit |
closed |
|
| |
Ripley Foundation |
sunk |
Outram |
| |
Tissington Engine |
sunk |
Anthony Tissington |
| 1791 |
Butterley |
working |
Butterley Co formed April |
| 1792 |
Selston |
sunk |
James Oakes founded |
| 1793 |
Bilborough |
accident |
|
| |
Cossall |
sunk |
Lord Middleton |
| |
Oakthorpe |
sunk |
Francis Rawdon Hastings |
| |
Oakthorpe |
sunk |
Hastings & Joseph Wilkes |
| |
Stanton |
closed |
Burslem & Sketchley |
| 1794 |
Ballyfield |
sinking 1790-1795 |
|
| |
Bilborough |
working |
accident |
| |
Codnor Park |
sunk |
Butterley Co |
| |
Coleorton Old |
re-opened |
Beaumont |
| |
Measham Slack Pit |
opened |
Wilkins |
| |
Greenwich |
sunk |
Outram & Jessop, First whimsey |
| |
Shilo |
sinking |
Skegby Colliery Co |
| |
West Hallam |
sunk |
John Sutton |
| 1795 |
Coleorton Old |
closed again |
Beaumont |
| |
Shilo |
sunk |
Skegby Colliery Co |
| |
Swanwick Old Colliery |
sunk |
|
| |
Whiteborough |
inundation |
Skegby Colliery Co |
| 1796 |
Measham Slack Pit |
closed |
Wilkins |
| 1799 |
Brook Pit at Donisthorpe |
sunk |
Joseph Wilkes & Edward Mammott |
| |
Donisthorpe |
sunk |
Joseph Wilkes |
| |
Newlands, Swanwick |
sunk |
|
| |
Nuthall |
sunk |
Wigleys |
