Nelson Pit was a
coal mine operating on the
Manchester Coalfield from the 1830s or 1840s in
Shakerley
Shakerley is a suburb of Tyldesley in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
It was anciently a hamlet in the northwest of the township of Tyldesley cum Shakerley, in the ancient parish of
Leigh.
The boundary between ...
,
Tyldesley,
Greater Manchester, then in the
historic county of
Lancashire, England.
Originally named Shakerley Colliery, the pit was sunk on land leased from Ellis Fletcher and worked by Nathan Eckersley in 1851. In 1861 the colliery passed to William Ramsden who owned Messhing Trees Colliery half a mile to the south. A shaft was sunk to 840 feet and the pit produced house coal from the
Trencherbone mine.
The colliery was renamed after 1880. The shaft was deepened to the
Arley mine at 1486 feet. Nelson Pit closed in 1938. Shakerley Colliery and Messhing Trees were owned by William Ramsden's
Shakerley Collieries.
The colliery was isolated from the main roads and railway and access to it was via a
toll road, Shakerley Lane, connecting it to the
Bolton to
Leigh
Leigh may refer to:
Places In England
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Greater Manchester, Borough of Wigan
** Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)
* Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Dorset
* Leigh, Gloucestershire
* Leigh, Kent
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turnpike which continued to charge tolls until 1948. After the opening of the
Tyldesley Loopline in 1864, William Ramsden built a mineral railway to link his collieries to the main line east of the
Tyldesley Coal Company's sidings.
The colliery was the scene of a disaster on 2 October 1883; six men died when the cage rope broke.
The colliery was sold to
Manchester Collieries in 1935 and abandoned in October 1938.
See also
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List of collieries in Astley and Tyldesley
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List of mining disasters in Lancashire
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Glossary of coal mining terminology
This is a partial glossary of coal mining terminology commonly used in the coalfields of the United Kingdom. Some words were in use throughout the coalfields, some are historic and some are local to the different British coalfields.
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Coal mines in Lancashire
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