Hulton Colliery Company

The Hulton Colliery Company was a coal mining company operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the mid 19th century in Over Hulton and Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

In the early 19th century the mines were owned by William Hulton who was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1811 and in 1812 sentenced four men, including a 12-year-old boy, to be executed for their part in a Luddite attack on Westhoughton Mill.

[3] Hulton's pits thrived and in the 1820s were connected to the Bolton and Leigh Railway.

The new pits were linked to the Bolton and Leigh Railway line at Pendlebury Fold where the company built brickworks.

The company expanded, and sank the shafts for Chequerbent Colliery to the east of the railway line and south of the Manchester road in 1892.