History of Lyme & Wood Pits

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Lyme & Wood Country Park is located on the boundaries of Newton-le-Willows and Haydock on land previously occupied by Lyme Pit and Wood Pit later used for landfill before redevelopment into a country park.

A nice video tracing the route of the old Haydock Collieries Branch line from Earlestown.
02/02/2026

A nice video tracing the route of the old Haydock Collieries Branch line from Earlestown.

In part 4 of Britain's Forgotten Railway Town, we look at the former Haydock Colliery Branch, which ran through the heart of Earlestown and was the first act...

10/12/2025

Have you ever wondered how a miners safety lamp worked?

03/05/2025

We've now hit 700 followers 🎉 It would be good to hear from people who worked at Lyme or Wood Pit or memories shared by friends and families.

Just seen this on a Leigh Facebook group but I noticed it also includes Haydock.
19/11/2022

Just seen this on a Leigh Facebook group but I noticed it also includes Haydock.

30/01/2022

Did you work at Lyme Pit or Wood Pit? Maybe you had friends or family who worked there? Please share your stories or pictures here with the other members of the group.

Link to Wikipedia contains information about Lyme and Wood pits.
05/07/2021

Link to Wikipedia contains information about Lyme and Wood pits.

Haydock Collieries were collieries situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield which is now in Merseyside, England. The company which operated the collieries was Richard Evans & Co Ltd.

04/04/2021

The locomotive 'Bellerophon' at Wood Pit, Haydock

Another interesting view of Lyme Pit.
14/01/2021

Another interesting view of Lyme Pit.

Download this stock image: A Lyme Pit from the works chimney early 1900s - DCBA6F from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Using coordinates taken from an old map of Wood Pit I think I found the remains of the old shaft this afternoon. The oth...
10/12/2020

Using coordinates taken from an old map of Wood Pit I think I found the remains of the old shaft this afternoon. The other two shafts are much easier to find.

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