SEAMS OF COAL, (WITH ALTERNATIVE NAMES,) AS DEFINED BY THE NCB
FOR THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE COALFIELD.
Back to list of Pit NamesThe following list of seam names were defined by the National Coal Board after nationalision in 1947. Many of these seams were to thin to be exploited. But never the less they once again show the richness of the Noth Staffordshire coal field. All the following research as been done by team member Geoff Mould.
THE SEAMS
Red Shag Blackband or Halfyards Red Mine Clod Black Bass Hoo Cannel Spencroft or Pottery Bassey Mine Yard Little Row Ten foot Peacock or Yard Great Row Five Feet Deep mine Chalkey Cannel Row or Little Mine Ragmine New Mine Brown Mine Billy New Chalkey or Yard Blackmine Handbury mine Winghay or Knowles Rider Burnwood or Little Mine Main Twist or Pottery Binghay or Bingey Gin Mine Ash or Rowhurst Doctors Mine Bee Birchenwood or Granville Moss or Mossfield Birchenwood Easling Cannel Single 2 foot or Moss Single Five Foot Yard or Little Row Rough 7 ft or Bottom Yard Two Feet Ragman or Top Yard Hams or Five Feet Hams Birches Two Feet Single Eight Old Whitfield Birches or Old Whitfield 8 Ft or Bellringer Two Yard Ten Feet Rider Ten Feet or Main Bowling Alley or Top 2 Row Magpie Tatchin End Little Row Two Row Halfyard Holly Lane or Bottom 2 Row Two Row Yard Hardmine or Muck Row Bowling Alley Sparrow Butts Littley Bottom Muck Row Wall and Benches Flatts or Ironstone coal New Mine or Stinkers Stinking Johnny Galley New Moss Four Feet Little Mine Banbury or Seven Feet Froggery Seven-Foot Nab Banbury Newpool Eight Feet Nabbs Dilhorne Lodge Room Whitehurst or Limekiln Sudden Bullhurst or Two Yard Alecs Winpenny or Foxfield Bee Brick Kiln or Diamond New Holly Lane Mans Silver Mine or Cobble Brights or Little Cannel Row King or Woodhead Muck Row or Four Feet Sandrock Mine Holcombe Brook Crabtree or 4 Feet Little Row or Two Feet