Bentinck Colliery. (1)

Production commenced 1898. (2)

Closed 11/02/1994.

Site of a colliery initially sunk as a shaft mine in 1895, it operated as a drift mine from 1968 after which it produced over 1,000,000 tons of coal per annum. The colliery closed in 1993. (4)

Grid ref centred.
See also M17455 Annesley Colliery, coal came up at Bentinck and men at Annesley.

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

SMR

English Heritage, 1994, The Coal Industry, Nottingham 2: English Heritage Monuments Protection Programme Industrial Monuments Assessment (Step 3 Reports) (Published document). SNT6169.

<1> OS, 1917, 1:2500, County Series 1917 (Map). SNT1026.

Other Refs: 27/14

<2> Notts County Council, 1992, Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan, Consultative Draft, p 154 (Published document). SNT1519.

<3> Baddeley V and Spence U, 1994-5, Collieries Survey (Unpublished document). SNT2618.

<4> Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.