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- Manchester_Coalfield abstract "The Manchester Coalfield is part of the South Lancashire Coalfield, the coal seams of which were laid down in the Carboniferous Period. Some easily accessible seams were worked on a small scale from the Middle Ages, and extensively from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century until the last quarter of the 20th century. The Coal Measures lie above a bed of Millstone Grit and are interspersed with sandstones, mudstones, shales, and fireclays. The Lower Coal Measures occupy the high ground of the West Pennine Moors above Bolton and are not worked in the Manchester Coalfield. The most productive of the coal measures are the lower two thirds of the Middle Coal Measures where coal is mined from seams between the Worsley Four Foot and Arley mines. The deepest and most productive collieries were to the south of the coalfield. The coalfield is affected by the northwest to southeast aligned Pendleton Fault along the Irwell Valley and the Rossendale Anticline. The Coal Measures generally dip towards the south and west. Numerous other smaller faults affect the coalfield. The Upper Coal Measures are not worked in the Manchester Coalfield.The early coal pits were dug to the shallow seams where they outcropped, particularly in the Irwell Valley and in Atherton. The early collieries were adits or bell pits exploiting the Worsley Four Foot Mine. Deeper mines were sunk when steam engines were developed to pump water from the shafts. Most collieries to the east of the Pendleton Fault had closed before 1929. A group of independent companies formed Manchester Collieries in 1929, to work the reserves of the coalfield.".
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- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Anticline.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Ardwick.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Atherton,_Greater_Manchester.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Bedford_Colliery.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Bell_pit.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Blackrod.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Bradford_Colliery.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Cannel_coal.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Carboniferous.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Category:Coal_mines_in_Lancashire.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Category:Coal_mining_regions_in_England.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_England.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Clifton,_Greater_Manchester.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Coal_Measures.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Coal_measures.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Coal_mine.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Coal_mining.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Drift_mine.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Drift_mining.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Farnworth.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Fire_clay.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Fireclay.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Gibfield_Colliery.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Industrial_Revolution.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Iron_pyrites.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Ironstone.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Irwell_Valley.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Ladyshore_Colliery.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Lancashire_Coalfield.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink List_of_collieries_in_Astley_and_Tyldesley.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Little_Hulton.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Manchester_Collieries.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Ages.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Millstone_Grit.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Mudstone.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Oldham_Coalfield.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Pendleton_Fault.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Pyrite.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Red_Moss,_Greater_Manchester.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink River_Irwell.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Rossendale.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Sandstone.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Shale.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Spontaneous_combustion.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Stoneclough.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink West_Pennine_Moors.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Westhoughton.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Worsley.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink Worsley_Navigable_Levels.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLink File:AstleyGreenCollieryPithead.jpg.
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Arley mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Bin mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Black and White mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Brassey mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Cannel mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Crombouke mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Doe mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Five Quarters mine mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Hell Hole mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Plodder mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Rams mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Trencherbone mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Worsley Four Foot mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester Coalfield#Yard mine".
- Manchester_Coalfield wikiPageWikiLinkText "Manchester".
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- Manchester_Coalfield subject Category:Coal_mines_in_Lancashire.
- Manchester_Coalfield subject Category:Coal_mining_regions_in_England.
- Manchester_Coalfield subject Category:Geology_of_England.
- Manchester_Coalfield hypernym Part.
- Manchester_Coalfield type Mine.
- Manchester_Coalfield type Mine.
- Manchester_Coalfield comment "The Manchester Coalfield is part of the South Lancashire Coalfield, the coal seams of which were laid down in the Carboniferous Period. Some easily accessible seams were worked on a small scale from the Middle Ages, and extensively from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century until the last quarter of the 20th century. The Coal Measures lie above a bed of Millstone Grit and are interspersed with sandstones, mudstones, shales, and fireclays.".
- Manchester_Coalfield label "Manchester Coalfield".
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- Manchester_Coalfield depiction AstleyGreenCollieryPithead.jpg.
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