badman
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13 years ago
Does anyone know if there is somewhere that lists all known coal mines in East Midlands ( Notts, Derbys, Leic, Warwick) with the O.S grid ref of the mine?
Vanoord
13 years ago
Yup.

This here website. Search by OS sheet should do the trick?

General hint is to stay out of coal mines though.
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badman
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13 years ago
Not thinking of going in old coal mines- had enough of that when working in them, just doing a bit of research.
simonrl
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13 years ago
"badman" wrote:

Not thinking of going in old coal mines- had enough of that when working in them, just doing a bit of research.



Vanoord would have worked that out had he looked at your public profile on here :angel:

I'd start with:

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/mines/  and select coal and the corresponding map sheet

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/map/ 

See the other thread on the Coal Authority's new map as well :thumbup:
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badman
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13 years ago
Thanks for suggestions but not really what I was after. What I really would like , if it exists outside the Coal Authority archives, is a list format with the mine name then the grid ref at side of name. I know it exists at Coal Authority HQ but they want a ridicules amount to copy them.
simonrl
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13 years ago
Technically it exists here but isn't displayed in that format.

A few people have put - literally - hundreds of hours into the database and if the NGRs were listed next to mine names we'd get wholesale ripping of the data and, for example, selling it in relation to property deals, etc.

I appreciate that's not entirely helpful to somebody like yourself conducting your own research but it's the balance I have to strike between running a hobby site that people contribute to and not running a hobby site because people might feel like somewhere somebody was profiting from their hard work inputting information.

Therefore I'm afraid you only get the NGR on the mine's own page - so you can achieve what you're after, but requires more legwork.
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badman
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13 years ago
Point taken, I'll have to do some legwork then,thanks anyway for the pointers.
simonrl
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13 years ago
No worries - look for the 'Where on earth is this mine?' block on the right hand side of each mine's page. There is also a Streetmap link.

If there's no NGR entered for a mine it will tell you.
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