| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Hardwick Colliery Company Limited |
| Also Known As | Wingerworth Colliery Company: Hardwick Coal Company |
| Place | Heath |
| Epithet | colliery company |
| Dates | 1840-1947 |
| History | It was John Chambers in conjunction with other local gentlemen oh Hardwick who sank the Lings Colliery in c1840. With new partner J. Ward he bought out his previous partners in 1860, being then owners of the Lings, Owlcotes and Peewit collieries. Hardwick Colliery Company obtained a lease from the Duke of Devonshire and sinkings began at Holmewood in the late 1860s. The Hardwick Colliery Company became a limited company in 1900. The company developed a new colliery at Williamthorpe, where production started in 1905. Coke ovens were built in 1910 at Holmewood as part of a modernisation plan and became immediately profitable, being operated by Hardwick By-Products Comapny Limited. Ramcroft Coliery was acquired in 1929, but was not worked fully again until about 1939 when it was decided to open up the first Waterloo Seam. The company's collieries, comprising Holmewood, Ramcroft and Williamthorpe, were transferred to the control of the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. |
| Key Events | 1840: company created
1900: established as a limited company
1947: nationalisation |
| Address | Its offices were based at Heath near Chesterfield. |
| Source | The Hardwick Colliery Company by RC Didham, 1970 (photocopy of booklet in Local Studies Library, file ref. 338.2) |
| Authorised Form of Name | Heath; Hardwick Colliery Company Limited; 1840-1947; colliery company |
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