Coalmines

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What is the name of the oldest coalmine in Nottingham?

[Octavius]

Coal has been used in Nottingham for many centuries. On one occasion Henry III had to leave his Queen in this town for a time, but she soon departed because she could not endure the smoke from the coal. In 1641 �stone coal� was got at Wollaton, Strelley, and Bram­cote; and was conveyed to Nottingham and sent thence down the Trent to Newark, Gainsborough, and other places.

In the eighteenth century mines existed at Bilborough, Brinsley, Eastwood, Teversall, and Wollaton. Babbington Colliery at Cinderhill, Nottingham was sunk in 1841.