North Selby Mine

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The photograph on this page of North Selby Mine by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.

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North Selby Mine

Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 4 Aug 2013

One of the six shaft accessed mines that were part of the Selby coalfield 'super pit'. The coal came up a drift at the seventh site at Gascoigne Wood. Several abandoned buildings still remain but the head gear has been demolished. I'm stood by a substantial machinery base and there is a large pile of rubble that might mark the location of a shaft that was operated by a conventional ground mounted winding engine.

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.890309
Longitude
-1.016437