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Temperature Maps of the British Coalfields

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
13 August 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This dataset provides the first map and synthesis of the temperature of Britain's coalfields. It was created to support low-temperature heat recovery, cooling and storage schemes using mine water in abandoned workings. This baseline spatial mapping and synthesis of coalfield temperatures offers significant benefit to those planning, designing and regulating heat recovery and storage in Britain's abandoned coalfields. The dataset has been developed jointly by the Coal Authority and the British Geological Survey. It is delivered as a hexgrid representing mine water blocks, identifying equilibrium mine temperatures at 10 depth intervals (100 m > 1000 m) and pumped mine temperatures at 6 depth intervals (100 m > 600 m).

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
13 August 2026
Harvest GUID
d962189b-e7ed-2998-e054-002128a47908
Extent (Latitude)
60.8800° to 49.8500°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.6500° to 1.7800°
Dataset reference date (creation)
2020-11
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
The Coal Authority (pointOfContact); British Geological Survey (distributor, pointOfContact, originator)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng