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    (secondary coordinates) The Burnley Coalfield is the most northerly portion of the Lancashire Coalfield. Surrounding Burnley, Nelson, Blackburn and Accrington...
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    18th century also saw the rapid development of coal mining on the Burnley Coalfield: the drift mines and shallow bell-pits of earlier centuries were replaced...
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    The coalfield on the western side of the Pennines is divided into two parts separated by the Rossendale anticline. To the north-east is the Burnley Coalfield...
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    2°20′49″W / 53.773°N 2.347°W / 53.773; -2.347 (Huncoat) on the Burnley Coalfield was sunk by George Hargreaves and Company between 1890 and 1893. Before...
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  • Hapton Valley Colliery (category History of Burnley Borough)
    last deep mine operating on the Burnley Coalfield. The Burnley Coalfield, separated from the South Lancashire Coalfield, is in the form of an oval bowl...
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    cotton towns in central Lancashire. Oswaldtwistle is part of the Burnley Coalfield and had a number of coal mines such as Aspen Colliery 53°45′07″N 2°23′59″W...
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    Power-Loom Weavers' Association. Nelson is considered part of the Burnley Coalfield. There is evidence of old bell pits and surface mining at Swinden...
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    Turf Moor (category Buildings and structures in Burnley)
    Moor is an association football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire, England, which has been the home of Burnley Football Club since 1883. This unbroken service...
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    cases troops marched from Burnley Barracks and the violence ceased with their arrival. Colne is on the edge of the Burnley Coalfield and coal was being mined...
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