List of collieries in Astley and Tyldesley

To the south of Astley the Coal Measures dip beneath the Permo-Triassic New Red Sandstone.

Some of the earliest small coal pits belonged to Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, and his successors the Bridgewater Trustees, and were situated at the east of the township near Chaddock Lane, and north at New Manchester where the coal seams outcropped.

Astley and Tyldesley Collieries had coal mines at Gin Pit to the south of the railway.

Some of these companies joined with others to form Manchester Collieries in 1929 as a response to the decline in coal mining and better survive the difficult economic conditions of the time.

Mosley Common was one of the country's largest and most modern pits after refurbishment and development work in the 1960s when it employed 3000 workers.