UK Mining Museums
The following
museums are in alphabetical order and are either wholly or partly devoted to
mining.
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Museum |
Mineral &
Facilities |
Address |
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Oil
Shale surface displays |
Millfield, Livingston, West Lothian |
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Coal surface displays underground tour |
Apedale Rd, Chesterton, Newcastle, Staffs ST5 6BL |
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Coal
Surface displays underground tour |
Higher Green Lane, Astley, Tyldesley, Manchester M29 7JB |
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Sandstone Underground tour |
Caberfeigh, 24 Hatchlands Road, Redhill |
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Coal
Surface displays underground tour |
Stanley, Durham |
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Stone Surface displays underground tour |
Quarry Lane, Beer, Nr Seaton, Devon |
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Coal Surface displays |
Bellingham, Northumberland |
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Coal
Surface displays underground tour |
Blaenafon, South Wales NP4 9XP |
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Iron
& Fireclay surface displays underground tour |
Bo'ness Station, Union Street, Bo'ness, West Lothian EH51 9AQ |
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Coal
& Limestone surface displays underground tour |
Tipton Rd, Dudley, West Midlands DY1 4SQ |
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Tin
surface displays |
Trevellas Combe, St Agnes, Cornwall |
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Fluorspar
underground tour |
Castleton, Hope Valley, S33 8WP |
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Slate underground tour |
St Neot, Cornwall |
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Stone underground tour |
Drury Walk, Upper Level, Broad Marsh Shopping Centre, Nottingham NG1 7LS |
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Coal
surface displays |
Neath, South Wales |
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Chalk
underground tour |
Old Hill, Chislehurst BR7 5NB, Kent |
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Iron
surface displays underground tour |
Coleford, Gloucestershire GL18 8JR |
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Iron
surface displays underground tour |
Deepdale, Skinningrove, Saltburn TS13 4AA |
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Tin
surface displays |
Redruth, Cornwall |
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Gold
surface displays underground tour |
Dolaucothi Estate, The Coach House, Pumsaint, Llanwrda SA19 8UW |
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Coal
& Iron surface displays underground tour |
Waterside, Patna, Ayrshire, KA6 7JF |
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Coal
surface displays |
Thornley
Community Centre, Hartlepool St, Thornley, Durham. |
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Copper
surface displays underground tour |
Ecton, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6
2AH |
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Tin
surface displays underground tour |
Pendeen, Penzance, Cornwall TR19 7EW |
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Lead
surface displays underground tour |
Oughterard, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland |
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Lead
surface displays underground tour |
Via Gellia, Matlock, Derbyshire |
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Copper surface displays underground tour |
Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales LL30 2XG |
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Flint
surface displays underground tour |
Brandon, Norfolk |
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Coal surface displays |
Solway Road, Kells, Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 9BG |
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Slate
surface displays underground tour |
Honister Pass, Borrowdale, Keswick, Cumbria CA12 5XN |
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Coal
surface displays underground tour |
Cannop Hill, Speech House Rd, Coleford, Gloucestershire |
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Coal
& Iron surface displays |
Ironbridge, Telford, Shropshire, TF8 7AW |
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Haematite
surface displays |
Bovey Tracey, Devon |
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Lead surface displays underground tour |
Cowshill, Upper Weardale, County Durham DL13 1AR |
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Tin
surface displays underground tour |
Troon, Camborne, Cornwall |
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Slate
surface displays underground tour Stone Surface displays |
Corris,
Machynlleth, Powys SY20 9RF St.
George's Close, Langton Matravers, Dorset |
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Lead
surface displays underground tour |
Laxey, Isle of Man |
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Tin
Surface displays |
Pendeen, Cornwall |
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Slate
Surface displays underground tour |
Llanfair, near Harlech, Gwynedd, LL46 2SA |
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Slate
surface displays underground tour |
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3NB |
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Lead
surface displays underground tour |
Ponterwyd, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3AB |
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Lead
underground tour |
Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire DE4 3PD |
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Iron Surface displays |
Railway Station, Millom |
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Lead
surface displays |
Minera, Wrexham |
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Copper surface displays underground tour |
Morwellham Quay, Tavistock PL19 8JL |
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Museum
of Scottish Lead Mining |
Lead
surface displays underground tour |
Wanlockhead, Biggar ML12 6UT |
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Coal surface displays underground tour |
Caphouse Colliery, New Road, Overton, Wakefield WF4 4RH |
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Stone
surface displays |
Porter Lane, Middleton, Wirksworth, Derbyshire DE4 4LS |
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Lead Surface displays underground tour |
Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria CA9 3PD |
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Lead
surface displays simulated underground |
The Pavilion, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire |
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Coal |
Pleasley,
Mansfield, Notts |
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Tin
surface displays underground tour |
Helston, Cornwall, TR13 0ER |
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Coal
surface displays |
Lewis Merthyr Colliery, Coed Cae Road, Trehafod CF37 7NP |
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Lead underground tour |
Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire DE4 3PD |
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Salt
Surface displays |
162 London Rd, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 8AB |
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Coal
surface displays |
Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4QN |
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Lead
surface displays underground tour |
Snailbeach, Minsterley, Shropshire |
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Coal
surface displays |
Ashby Rd, Coalville, Leicestershire LE6 2LN |
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Coal
surface displays |
Afan Argoed Country Park, Cynonville, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan SA13 3HG |
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Lead surface displays underground tour |
Winnats Pass, Castleton, Hope Valley, Derbyshire S30 2WA |
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Coal
surface displays simulated underground |
Sunderland |
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Coal
surface displays |
Reeth Green, Reeth, Richmond, North Yorkshire DL11 6Q |
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Copper
surface displays underground tour |
Beddgelert, Caernarfon LL55 4NE |
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Lead
surface displays |
Tankerville, Pennerley, Shropshire |
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Lead surface displays underground tour |
Matlock Bath. Derbyshire |
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Threlkeld
Quarry & Mining Museum |
Slate/metals Surface
displays |
Otley House, Otley Road, Keswick. |
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Tin
surface displays |
Redruth, Cornwall |
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Blue
John surface displays underground tour |
Castleton, Derbyshire S33 8WP |
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Coal
surface displays |
Albany Way, Washington, Durham |
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Slate
surface displays |
Gilfach Ddu, Llanberis, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 4TY |
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China
Clay surface displays |
Helston, Cornwall |
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Coal
surface displays |
QE2 Country Park, Ashington, Northumberland NE63 9YF |
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Lead
surface
displays |
Old
Grammar School, School Lane, Earby, Skipton BB18 6QF |