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Coal Mine Entry

Published by:
Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:
29 January 2026
Topic:
Not added
Licence:
None

Summary

The Coal Authority has records of over 175,000 mine entries within the UK captured in the National Coal Mining database, derived from sources including abandonment plans, geological and topographical plans. Coal mining activity is recorded as far back as the 13th century, but prior to 1872 there was no requirement to deposit abandonment plans. It is therefore believed there may be many unrecorded mine entries of which the Authority has no information or knowledge. These entries do not, therefore, appear within the Authority's national dataset as described here.

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Additional information

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Added to data.gov.uk
2026-01-29
Access contraints
Data available under a Coal Authority data licence. See https://www.gov.uk/guidance/licensable-coal-mining-data.
Harvest GUID
0b2229ae14302eba904f8575659d7c2066c87c7d
Extent
Latitude: 58.0294° to °
Longitude: -5.9737° to 1.9526°
Spatial reference system
Dataset reference date
2023-10-12 (publication)
Frequency of update
continual
Responsible party
The Coal Authority (owner, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
Source Metadata
XML
HTML

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