Astley Green Colliery was a coal mine in Astley, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.[1] It was the last colliery to be sunk in Astley. Sinking commenced in 1908 by the Pilkington Colliery Company, a subsidiary of the Clifton and Kersley Coal Company, at the southern edge of the Manchester Coalfield, working the Middle Coal Measures where they dipped under the Permian age rocks under Chat Moss. The colliery was north of the Bridgewater Canal. In 1929 it became part of Manchester Collieries,[2] and in 1947 was nationalised and integrated into the National Coal Board. It closed in 1970, and is now Astley Green Colliery Museum.
- ^ North Western Division Map 86, The Coalmining History Research Centre, archived from the original on 19 July 2011, retrieved 2 February 2011
- ^ Clifton & Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Durham Mining Museum, retrieved 26 January 2011