Identification

Title

Probable Shallow Coal Mine Workings

Abstract

Probable shallow coal mine workings contain locations and estimated extents of probable shallow underground workings for which no recorded plan exists, but where it is likely that workable coal at shallow depths has been mined before records were kept. The data has been estimated from available mining records by qualified mining surveyors. Since 1872 there has been a law that requires all coal mine operators to deposit working plans of the mine with the Government following the cessation of operations. Prior to this date the plans were often destroyed or kept in private ownership. This layer was constructed to show areas where the Coal Authority believe that there is evidence of past coal mine workings but have no formal abandonment plan for those workings, such as an adjacent mine plan may have the annotation ‘Ancient workings’, located by development and/or site investigation, the workings may even be shown on an estate/surface plan. This dataset does not therefore constitute a complete dataset and omissions of recorded and unrecorded shallow workings do not constitute virgin un-worked ground; standing advice must prevail.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/CoalAuthority/coalauthority_specific_risk/MapServer/WMSServer?

protocol: OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

name: Probable.Shallow.Coal.Mine.Workings

description: Probable Shallow Coal Mine Workings

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

4e32b0b3a6de77499a081c651520d65826800991_resource

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coal-mining-data-probable-shallow-coal-mine-workings

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

location

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

mining

coal

energy

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

probable shallow workings

underground

mining report

ground stability

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-9.141715

East bounding longitude

2.475924

North bounding latitude

60.010291

South bounding latitude

49.766186

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-08-14

End position

2014-08-14

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-09-26T00:00:04

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

The National Coal Mining Database, which is based on the records held at The Coal Authority offices in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, is updated on a regular basis. This dataset has been extracted from this dynamic database on the date stated and therefore represents a snapshot in time.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Service Team

organisation name

The Coal Authority

full postal address

200 Lichfield Lane

Mansfield

NG18 4RG

UK

telephone number

+44 (0)845 7626848

facsimile number

+44 (0)1623 637338

email address

groundstability@coal.gov.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-coal-authority

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Customer Service Team

organisation name

The Coal Authority

full postal address

200 Lichfield Lane

Mansfield

NG18 4RG

UK

telephone number

+44 (0)845 7626848

facsimile number

+44 (0)1623 637338

email address

groundstability@coal.gov.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-coal-authority

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-08-26T15:27:06

Metadata language