Anglesey Coalfield

The Anglesey Coalfield is a minor British coalfield. Although it is situated in north-west Wales, this isolated coalfield on Anglesey is not usually considered to form a part of the North Wales Coalfield which lies in Flintshire and Denbighshire in north-east Wales. Stretching from the Gaerwen area to Malltraeth, it is around 9 miles long. [1] Working of coal at such places as Berw Mine took place during the coalfield's 300 year productive life from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century.[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://uk-genealogy.org.uk/wales/Anglesey/index.html
  2. ↑ Campbell S., Wood M. and Windley B. 2014 Footsteps through Time: the Rocks and Landscape of Anglesey Explained GeoMon, Isle of Anglesey County Council (193pp) p136, 141

Coordinates: 53°12′58″N 4°19′26″W / 53.21608°N 4.32398°W / 53.21608; -4.32398

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