Towneley Colliery

Sunk in the late 1860s, it was linked to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Burnley to Todmorden line which became known as the Copy Pit route and, by tramway, to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

Brooks and Pickup began coal production from the main shaft, the Alice Pit in late February 1869.

[5] The colliery was nationalised in 1947 after which the National Coal Board worked the Yard, Dandy and Lower Mountain mines.

[2] Little remains of the colliery, a residential development occupies a small part of the site and the rest comprises steep, mossy hillocks and woodland.

A small replica brick kiln was built on a hillock to commemorate the colliery's brickworks.