| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Teversal Colliery |
| Parent Body | Stanton Ironworks Company Ltd |
| National Coal Board |
| Also Known As | Butcherwood Colliery |
| Place | Teversal, Nottinghamshire |
| Epithet | coal mine |
| Dates | 1867-1980 |
| History | Originally sunk in 1867 by John and George Crompton. It was also known by the name Butcherwood, which was the name of a wood near to where the pit was located. John Thomas Boot, part of a mining engineer family from Huthwaite in Nottinghamshire, was used as an advisor during the sinking. Coal was reached in 1869. The coal seams worked were the Top Hard, Dunsil and First Waterloo seams. Despite this, the pit was known as one of the shallowest Nottinghamshire pits, but it was always profitable, as the coal produced was mainly used by power stations. At its height, the colliery produced 300,000 tonnes a year.
Teversal Colliery was transferred into the control of the National Coal Board following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. It was in the East Midlands Division of the NCB, being part of Area No. 4. The last pit pony to work at Teversal was retired in 1963. The pit itself closed in 1980. By that time, only 5,000 tonnes a year were produced. |
| Source | Amos, D. and Braber, N., Bradwell’s Images of Coal Mining in the East Midlands (Sheffield: Bradwell Books, 2017)
Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006)
Teversal Village, Teversal Mining, https://www.teversal-manorroom.org/teversalmining/
Weiss, M., Coal Mines Remembered 2 (2011) |
| Authorised Form of Name | Teversal, Nottinghamshire; Teversal Colliery; 1867-1980; coal mine |
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