Cannock Chase Coalfield is a

coalfield A coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where coal is mined. The criteria for determining the approximate boundary of a coalfield are geographical and cultural, in addition to geological. A coalfield often groups the seams of ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

, lying directly under

Cannock Chase Cannock Chase, often referred to locally as The Chase, is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England. The area has been designated as the Cannock Chase National Landscape, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and muc ...

. It forms a rough triangle between Brereton,

Essington Essington is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England, northeast of the city of Wolverhampton. Nearby are the towns of Bloxwich and Cannock and the villages of Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley (Landywood ...

and

Pelsall Pelsall is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Forming part of the borough's border with Staffordshire, Pelsall is north of Walsall and midway between the towns of Bloxwich and Brow ...

. The Cannock Chase Coalfield lies just to the north of the

South Staffordshire Coalfield The South Staffordshire coalfield is one of several coalfields in the English Midlands. It stretches for 25 miles / 40 km from the Lickey Hills in the south to Rugeley in the north. The coalfield is around wide; its eastern and western mar ...

, from which it is separated by the Bentley Fault. The seams under Cannock Chase are much deeper than those in South Staffordshire, being around near Rugeley, compared to around in South Staffordshire. By 1890, the coalfield was producing 3 million tons of coal per year, and by 1933 this had risen to over 5 million tons. The last working

coal mine Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...

beneath Cannock Chase,

Littleton Colliery Littleton Colliery was a deep coal mine situated two miles north of Cannock on the A34 road, A34 in the village of Huntington, Staffordshire, Huntington. The colliery closed on 3 December 1993 and was the last working coal mine on the Cannock Ch ...

, was situated in the village of

Huntington, Staffordshire Huntington is a civil parish and former mining village in Staffordshire, on the outskirts of Cannock Chase. It lies on the A34 road just north of Cannock and is surrounded by woodland. The village had an estimated population of 3,720 in 2004 ...

on the A34 and closed on 3 December 1993. Some of the coal from the mine was taken to power the nearby

Rugeley Power Station The Rugeley power stations were a series of two coal-fired power stations located on the River Trent at Rugeley in Staffordshire. The first power station on the site, Rugeley A power station was opened in 1961, but has since been closed and demo ...

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