Collieries Closed Before 1871
The report of the Royal Commission on the coal industry, published in 1871, includes a
list of 150 pits which had been closed by then, although the actual dates of closure and,
in many cases, the locations of the pits are not given. Some of these pits are included in
the other lists on this site.
| Colliery | Alternative Name | Location | Notes |
| Air Balloon | |||
| Allen's Paddock | Farmborough | ||
| Amberlands | Nailsea | ||
| Amesbury's | Farmborough | ||
| Barlake | Nettlebridge | ||
| Batchelor's | Cock Road | ||
| Bilboa Old | |||
| Bishop Sutton Old | |||
| Bonnymount | |||
| Brain's | Bedminster | ||
| Britton's Lower | |||
| Britton's Middle | |||
| Britton's Upper | |||
| Buckland's | Nailsea | ||
| California | Hanham | ||
| Castle's | Stapleton | Two pits | |
| Chaffhouse | Shortwood | ||
| Cheltenham | Kingswood | ||
| Church Lease | Coalpit Heath | ||
| Clutton Manor Old | Five pits | ||
| Coal Barton | Three pits | ||
| Cock | Stapleton | ||
| Cock Road | |||
| Cook and Thatcher's | Shortwood | ||
| Cook's | |||
| Crew's Hole | |||
| Cromhall Engine | |||
| Cromhall Old | |||
| Crown | Warmley | ||
| Deep Pit | Bedminster | ||
| Dog | |||
| Doxall | Kingswood | ||
| Dudley | |||
| Duck's Nest | |||
| Duke of Beaufort's | Kingswood Lodge | ||
| Duke of Beaufort's | Stapleton | ||
| Duncombe | Kingswood | ||
| Dunkerton New | Radstock | ||
| Dunkerton Old | Radstock | ||
| Dyas Bridge | |||
| Easton Old | |||
| Edford Common | |||
| Farler's | Nailsea | ||
| Farmborough New | |||
| Flat Vein | Kingswood | ||
| Fryar's | Mangotsfield | ||
| Fry's | Dodd's | ||
| Fudge's | Kingswood | ||
| Globe | Newton St Loe | ||
| Golden Valley | Nailsea | ||
| Goldstone | North-side | Bedminster | |
| Goodeaves' | |||
| Grayfield Old | |||
| Great Dicot | Kingswood Lodge | ||
| Great Engine | Bedminster | ||
| Great Salisbury | |||
| Grimsbury | Warmley | Two pits | |
| Grove | Coalpit Heath | ||
| Gunner's | Bedminster | ||
| Harvey's Hill | |||
| Haygrove Engine | Farmborough | ||
| Hayswood | Timsbury | ||
| Heath | Nailsea | ||
| Hopewell | Kingswood | ||
| Jeffrey's Hill | |||
| Kingshill | Nailsea | ||
| Lantern | |||
| Leacham | |||
| Level | Kingswood | ||
| Little Dicot | Kingswood Lodge | ||
| Long's | Nettlebridge | ||
| Lower Catch | |||
| Lower Whimsey | Coalpit Heath | ||
| Made-for-ever | |||
| Mangotsfield Seam | Two pits | ||
| Marsh | Bedminster | ||
| Meareland's | Farmborough | ||
| Mearns | Farmborough | ||
| Middle Salisbury | Two pits | ||
| Monk's | |||
| Moon's | |||
| Newbury Old | |||
| New Cow Horn Hill | |||
| New Engine | Shepherd's | ||
| New Engine | Nailsea | ||
| New England | |||
| New Grove | Timsbury | ||
| New Land | Bedminster | ||
| New Lodge | Kingswood | ||
| New Moorwood | |||
| New Pylemarsh | |||
| New Ridgeway | Stapleton | ||
| New Ringing | Three pits | ||
| No 11 Engine | Coalpit Heath | ||
| Norton Hill | |||
| Old Backwell | Nailsea | Three pits | |
| Old Cow Horn Hill | |||
| Old Engine | Bedminster | ||
| Old Glasshouse | Nailsea | ||
| Old Haygrove | Farmborough | ||
| Old Hole Lane | |||
| Old Lower Vobster | |||
| Old Moorwood | |||
| Old Nailsea | Nailsea | ||
| Old Nettlebridge | Nettlebridge | ||
| Old Paulton | |||
| Old Pitcot | |||
| Old Pylemarsh | Two pits | ||
| Old Rock | |||
| Old Vobster Breach | |||
| Oxbridge | Coalpit Heath | ||
| Parker's | Kingswood | ||
| Parkgate | |||
| Paulton Ham | |||
| Paulton Hill | |||
| Potter's | Kingswood | ||
| Ram Hill | Coalpit Heath | ||
| Ratcomb | Farmborough | ||
| Ridgeway | Kingswood | ||
| Royal Oak | Kingswood | ||
| Rudge's | Clutton Ham | ||
| Serridge Engine | Coalpit Heath | ||
| Sheepridge | |||
| Shoscomb | Radstock | ||
| Sidney's | Bedminster | ||
| Siston Common | |||
| Siston Engine | |||
| Slyving | Salisbury | ||
| Smallcombe | Radstock | ||
| Soundwell High | |||
| Soundwell Lower | |||
| Soundwell Middle | |||
| Staple Hill | |||
| Staple Hill Engine | |||
| Tapwell Bridge | |||
| Temple Cloud | |||
| Tennis Court | Kingswood | ||
| Travis | Bishop Sutton | ||
| Turner's | |||
| Tyning | Timsbury | ||
| Upper Catch | |||
| Upper Whimsey | Coalpit Heath | ||
| Upper Wood | Shortwood | ||
| Victoria | Kingswood | ||
| Wapley | |||
| Woodbarrow | Radstock | ||
| Woody Haygrove | Farmborough | ||
| Yate Little Vein | |||
| Youngwood | Nailsea |