Ellerbeck Collieries (ruin)

Once a large colliery server by a specially constructed branch of the LMSR railway the ruins at Ellerbeck are substantial including large, concrete machine plinths, two fenced-off mineshafts and a good number of open manholes, some of which are quite deep – careful here.

The ruins of Ellerbeck Colliers seem to indicate a large complex of what could be mine drainage and possibly filter beds down near the stream, which appears to be a purpose built extension into the brook following the bottom of the large embankment. The main colliery and shafts above. There are many walls and heaps of spoil and strange bits of old machinery scattered through the undergrowth.

The colliery remained active longer that nearby Duxbury Park Colliery and closed sometime in the latter half of the 20th Century.

Nearby a large embankment held the railway line as it passes over the small clough of Eller Brook, which is culverted below. The brook looks a bit polluted and grey here, in contrast to the areas downstream that are rather pretty.

An area to the North – now fields – was open-cast mined with the first coal seam around 7 metres down.

Old Map of Ellerbeck Collieries C1929

Possibly Part of the Mine Drainage at Ellerbeck Collieries

Possibly Mine Drainage Pumping or Water Treatment System Remains at Ellerbeck Collieries

One of Several Open Catch-Pits at Ellerbeck Collieries

One of Two Fenced Mineshafts at Ellerbeck Collieries

Another Fenced-off Mineshaft at Ellerbeck Collieries

Large Concrete Plinths at Ellerbeck Collieries

Old Walls of Ellerbeck Collieries

The Culvert Where Eller Brook Goes Under the Old Railway Embankment

Local History

Historic monuments near Ellerbeck Collieries (ruin)

Moated site of Clayton Hall, adjacent fishponds and channels – 8.60 km away
Headless Cross, Grimeford – 3.52 km away
Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds – 2.32 km away
Pike Stones chambered long cairn – 5.54 km away
Round cairn on Noon Hill – 6.38 km away
Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 6.98 km away
Bradley Hall, moated site, fishponds and connecting channels – 6.43 km away
The Moat House moated site 600m WNW of St David’s Church – 4.86 km away
Cross base on Standish Wood Lane 700m south east of Standish Hall – 5.37 km away
Moated site at Arley Hall, Haigh near Wigan – 3.06 km away
Mabs Cross on Standishgate, 20m west of Mabs Cross School building – 7.42 km away
Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington Hall – 7.81 km away
Cross base at the junction of Standish Green Lane, Standish Wood Lane and Beech Walk, 200m NNW of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 4.73 km away
Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 4.60 km away
Market cross in the marketplace to the west of St Wilfrid’s Church, Standish – 4.07 km away
Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park House – 6.57 km away