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UK Major Mining Regions

Surrey (Chalk / Clay / Iron / Other Rock / Sand/Gravel / Sandstone)


Surrey's mining features are concentrated in the east. Minerals extracted include chalk from deneholes, fullers earth, sand, hearthstone, building stone (firestone). Bargate stone was dug in the Godalming area though underground workings have not been proven. There are also a few Wealden iron furnaces in the south and west. Surrey contains very extensive and archaeologically important stone quarries, dating back to mediaeval times, and possibly earlier. Reading: "East Surrey Underground", and Surrey's Ancient Stone Mines" by Peter Burgess. Websites: www.wcms.org.uk

The mines in this region are shown below:

Name Mineral OS Sheet
Alderstead Heath Chalk TQ
Betchworth Chalk TQ
Betchworth Hearthstone Other Rock TQ
Blunden's Wood Minepits Iron SU
Brockham Chalk TQ
Brockham Hearthstone Other Rock TQ
Buckland Chalk TQ
Burningfold Furnace Iron TQ
Bushman's Copse Minepits Iron SU
Cawley's Hearthstone Other Rock TQ
Chaldon Firestone Other Rock TQ
Chilmead Farm Fullers Earth Other Rock TQ
Colley Hill Hearthstone Other Rock TQ
Colley Hill Whiting Chalk TQ
Coombe Farm Chalk TQ
Crewes Avenue Chalk TQ
Crowhurst Brickworks Clay TQ
Croydon Merstham and Godstone Iron Unknown TQ
Denyards Copse Minepits Iron SU
Devilsden Wood Chalk TQ
Dorking Chalk TQ
Ewood Furnace Iron TQ
Fowlshatch Copse Minepits Iron SU
Frillinghurst Wood Minepits Iron SU
Furnace Moor Minepits Iron SU
Furzefield Wood Chalk TQ
Godstone Firestone Other Rock TQ
Godstone Village Sand/Gravel TQ
Great Didges Chalk TQ
Hagglers Dean Chalk TQ
Hambledon Hurst Minepits Iron SU
Hambledon Minepit Copse Minepits Iron SU
Holmen's Grove Minepits Iron SU
Hopkiln Reeds Minepits Iron SU
Hurtmore Sandstone SU
Imbhams Furnace Iron SU
Killinghurst Great Copse Minepits Iron SU
Lamb's Brickworks Clay TQ
London Road Reigate Sand/Gravel TQ
Marden Firestone Other Rock TQ
Merstham Chalk TQ
Merstham Firestone Other Rock TQ
Newhouse Great Copse Minepits Iron SU
Noddings Farm Minepits Iron SU
Oxted Chalk TQ
Pond Copse Minepits Iron SU
Racks Close Chalk SU
Reigate Hill Chalk TQ
Reigate Park Lane Sand/Gravel TQ
Reigate Tunnel Road Sand/Gravel TQ
Stroud Wood Minepits Iron SU
Tithe Pit Shaw Lane Chalk TQ
Vachery Furnace Iron TQ
Vann Copse Minepits Iron SU
Walton-on-the-Hill Chalk TQ
West Humble Chalk TQ
West Lodge Fullers Earth Other Rock TQ
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North West England

Lake District
Alston Moor
Manchester & Poynton Coalfields
Alderley Edge Copper Mines
Furness Peninsula

North East England

West Yorkshire
Durham Dales
Yorkshire Dales
Northumberland Dales
Cleveland and East Yorkshire
Durham & Northumberland Coalfield

Midlands

South Yorkshire
Lincolnshire
Northamptonshire
Leicestershire
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South East England

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London
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Surrey
Norfolk
Suffolk
Hampshire
Buckinghamshire
Essex
Hertfordshire
Bedfordshire
Cambridgeshire
Berkshire
Kent
West Sussex

South West England

Somerset
West Devon
East Cornwall & Kit Hill
the Bath-stone mines etc.
Dorset
Teign Valley
Caradon District
North and East Devon
Helston - Wendron
St Agnes - Newquay
Camborne and Redruth
Central Cornwall
the Tavy Valley
Dartmoor
Forest of Dean
Tamar Valley
St. Just and West Cornwall
South Goucestershire & Bristol Coalfield
Coombe Martin
Mounts Bay - Breage

North Wales

Denbigh/Dinbych
Northern Arfon
Nantlle & Cwm Gwyrfai
Blaenau & Northern Merioneth/Meirionnydd
Metal mines of North Wales
Clwyd
Dolgellau Goldbelt

Mid Wales

Corris & Southern Merioneth/Meirionnydd
Metal Mines of Mid Wales

South Wales

South Wales

Scotland

South West Scotland
Central Scotland
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