Ellerbeck Colliery was a coal mine located on the border of Coppull and Adlington in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England.

[2] The Hilton House and Red Moss Coal Company sank the first shaft in 1876 and the colliery closed in 1928.

[1] The colliery was nationalised in 1947 becoming part of the National Coal Board and was redeveloped employing 411 men in 1958 before finally closing in 1965.

[3] The colliery was served by a branch line of the Lancashire Union Railway, remnants of which including the old bridge foundations on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal are evident today.

The colliery was so important to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway that, despite not being a passenger station, it appeared on their route maps, Bibliography