Bedford Colliery
Bedford Colliery, also known as Wood End Pit, was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield in Bedford, Leigh, Lancashire, England. The colliery was owned by John Speakman, who started sinking two shafts on land at Wood End Farm in the northeast part of Bedford, south of the London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline in about 1874.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church and Tyldesley Little Theatre.
St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church
Church
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Joseph's Church is an active Roman Catholic church in, Leigh in Greater Manchester, England. It is in the parish of St Edmund Arrowsmith. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church is situated 1 mile southwest of Bedford Colliery.
Tyldesley Little Theatre
Theater building
Tyldesley Little Theatre is a small theatre in Lemon Street, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England. It is the home of a local amateur dramatic society, which mounted its first production at the theatre in 1921. Tyldesley Little Theatre is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Bedford Colliery.
St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Leigh
Church
Photo: SMJ, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It is a member of the Salford & Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford, diocese of Manchester. St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Leigh is situated 1 mile west of Bedford Colliery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bedford and Leigh.
Bedford
Suburb
Bedford is a suburb of Leigh, in the Wigan district, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. It was one of three ancient townships, Bedford, Pennington and Westleigh, that merged in 1875 to form the town of Leigh. Historically, Bedford was in Lancashire.
Leigh
Town
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leigh is a town in the Wigan district, in Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss. It is situated approximately 6 miles southeast of Wigan and 11 miles west of Manchester city centre.
Tyldesley
Town
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Tyldesley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is north of Chat Moss near the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, eight miles southeast of Wigan and nine miles northwest of Manchester.
Bedford Colliery
- Type: Mine
- Description: coal mine in the UK
- Categories: coal mine, historic site, and industry
- Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.50327° or 53° 30′ 12″ northLongitude
-2.49494° or 2° 29′ 42″ westOpen location code
9C5VGG34+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 4584406999OpenStreetMap feature
historic=mineWikidata ID
Q4879124
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