The Clifton and Kersley Coal Company or Clifton and Kearsley Coal Company was a coal mining company that operated in Clifton and Kearsley on the south side of the Irwell Valley, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
Its collieries exploited the coal mines (seams) of the middle coal measures in the Manchester Coalfield.
[1] The Clifton and Kersley Coal Company which took over collieries owned by the Fletchers was started by Edward and Alfred Pilkington in 1867.
[2] The company owned Newtown and Wet Earth Collieries in Clifton, Outwood Colliery in Outwood and the Little Hey, Manor, Scowcrofts and Spindle Point Collieries in Kearsley.
In 1896 the company employed 2,729 workers, 2,146 of them underground while in 1923 it employed 4,300 workers, nearly 2,000 of them at its newest colliery Astley Green.