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Coventry Colliery was a coal mine located in the village of Keresley, close to the town of Bedworth, England. Closed in 1991, the site today has been redeveloped as a distribution park, owned by Prologis. ==Wykens Collieries== Wyken Collieries Ltd had started to extract coal from coal seams within the Warwickshire Coalfield from 1862, across three mining developments in North Warwickshire:〔 *Wyken Colliery: served by the Oxford Canal, in 1862 the London and North Western Railway built a short connecting mineral railway to its own Coventry to Nuneaton Line. This mine was worked out by 1881 *Alexandra Colliery: started at the same time as the Wyken, it was also served from the same LNWR railway. Miners moved to this pit after the closure of the Wyken, but it too became exhausted by 1919 *Craven Colliery: started after the other two mines, it also was served by the same LNWR branch In 1902, the company commenced trial excavations at Keresley north of Coventry, and soon discovered a viable coal seam. The sinking of a new mine was sanctioned by an Act of Parliament, but not started due to economic problems.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coventry Colliery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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