Victoria Main Colliery

An old colliery or coal mine that closed around the turn of the 20th Century.

Around the mid-19th Century, Victoria Colliery worked at least two coal shafts, and buildings on site include offices engines and boilers. An air shaft for ventilation also existed towards Colliery Bridge (now Ridgeway bridge) which crosses the rail tracks to the north of the site.

View to the other old shaft at Victoria Main Colliery

Old stone walls at Victoria Main Colliery

Engine Mount Blocks at Victoria Main Colliery

Colliery Bridge (now Ridgeway Bridge) at Victoria Main Colliery

NCB Cap on one of the shafts at Victoria Main Colliery

Old Map of Victoria Main Colliery (1849)

Local History

Historic monuments near Victoria Main Colliery

Headless Cross, Grimeford – 3.16 km away
Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds – 6.14 km away
Pike Stones chambered long cairn – 7.23 km away
Round cairn on Winter Hill – 5.73 km away
Round cairn on Noon Hill – 5.34 km away
Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 8.25 km away
The Moat House moated site 600m WNW of St David’s Church – 2.86 km away
Moated site at Arley Hall, Haigh near Wigan – 3.95 km away
Cross base on Standish Wood Lane 700m south east of Standish Hall – 6.61 km away
Mabs Cross on Standishgate, 20m west of Mabs Cross School building – 5.64 km away
Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington Hall – 2.95 km away
Cross base at the junction of Standish Green Lane, Standish Wood Lane and Beech Walk, 200m NNW of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 6.61 km away
Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 6.50 km away
Market cross in the marketplace to the west of St Wilfrid’s Church, Standish – 6.51 km away
Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park House – 4.63 km away
Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm – 4.25 km away