Gwent Archives
GB0218.D2802
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Gwent Archives
- Title
- Abandoned Non-Coal Mines, Plans
- ID
- GB0218.D2802
- Date
- 1893-1970 [and undated]
- Extent
- 0.045 Cubic Metres
- Language
- English
Biographical/Historical note
A Mining Records Office was established by the government in 1840 for the voluntary registration and preservation of abandoned mine plans. The Coal Mines Regulation Act and Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872, made the deposition of plans of abandoned mines with the Secretary of State a statutory requirement. In 1950, by agreement made between the Ministry for Mines and the recently-formed National Coal Board, coal plans were separated from the plans of other minerals which were then sent to Thames House, Millbank in London before being transferred to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE Bootle, Merseyside) in 1984. Between 1989 and 1993, English and Welsh non-coal plans from Bootle were dispersed to the relevant County Record Offices.
Scope and Contents note
Plans of abandoned ironstone workings at Abersychan Iron Works, Varteg Mine and Coal Works and Garn Level, Blaenavon, and of the abandoned Darran Level (Fireclay) Mine, Risca, and Blaendare Fireclay Mine, Panteg, all Monmouthshire, [post 1875]-1970. Key Maps based on Ordnance Survey sheets. Negative and slide copies.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Gwent Archives
Conditions Governing Access note
Please refer to our policy document on closure periods, available at www.gwentarchives.gov.uk.
Conditions Governing Use note
Usual copyright regulations apply
Accruals note
Accruals are not expected
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Deposited by the Health and Safety Executive under sec. 4, Public Records Act 1958. The references in square brackets are the HSE references originally given to the plans before they were transferred to local record offices.
Appraisal note
All records have been retained.
Existence and Location of Copies note
Scanned copies of the plans are available from the Coal Authority, Mansfield.
Controlled Access Headings
Subject(s)
- Iron mines and mining--Wales--Monmouthshire--Maps; Iron mines and mining--Wales--Monmouthshire--Maps; Fire-clay--Wales--Monmouthshire;
Other Finding Aids note
Copies of finding aids are available at Gwent Archives.
Collection Inventory
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D2802/1 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Co., Abersychan Iron Works, Cwmbyrgwm Black Pin Ironstone workings. Abandoned January 1875. [HSE no. 799] [undated] 1.0 item |
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D2802/2 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Co., Abersychan Iron Works, Greenland Bottom Vein Ironstone workings. Abandoned January 1875. [HSE no. 799 A] [undated] 1.0 item |
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D2802/3 Varteg Mine and Coal Works, Black Pin (Ironstone) Mine. Abandoned 1888. [HSE no. 2312] [undated] 1.0 item |
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D2802/4 Garn Level, Blaenafon, Black Pin (Ironstone) Mine. [Abandoned circa 1888.] [HSE no. 3027] 1893 1.0 item |
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D2802/5 Darran Level (Fireclay) Mine, Risca (3 plans). [Abandoned circa 1903-1910.] [HSE no. 5887] 1912 3.0 items |
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D2802/6 Blaendare Fireclay Mine, Panteg. Abandoned 1970. [HSE no. 15257] 1970 1.0 item |
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D2802/7 Key maps: Ordnance Survey (1:10,560 scale, 6 inches to 1 mile) Monmouthshire sheets 11/11a,12,17,18,22,23,28 (1922 editions). With later handwritten annotations showing locations of abandoned non-coal mines and also coal mines and levels. Also shows civil parish boundaries coloured in blue. 1922 [with later annotations] 7.0 items |
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D2802/8 Copies ("Half-plate negatives" and slides) of the above plans (D2802/1-7) c.1980-1990 |
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