Parsonage Colliery

The colliery, close to the centre of Leigh and the Bolton and Leigh Railway was sunk between 1913 and 1920 by the Wigan Coal and Iron Company and the first coal was wound to the surface in 1921.

[1] For many years its shafts to the Arley mine were the deepest in the country.

[4] Markhams of Chesterfield supplied a winding engine with 40 inch diameter cylinders for the downcast shaft and W & J Galloway & Sons supplied the engine for the upcast shaft.

Walkers of Wigan supplied the 28 feet (8.5 m) diameter ventilation fan and engine.

It closed in early 1992 and the shaft was filled in with limestone mined in Carnforth, Lancashire then capped with a thick concrete plug.