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High Main Coal Seam

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The High Main Coal Seam. Surface coal was discovered here in medieval times. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, deep mining of this high quality household coal for sale to London drove the industrial development of the area.

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

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