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What is a colliery?

What is a colliery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
  2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.
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We do have 40 acres of land containing overgrown colliery shale, fly tipping and flooded clay pits.
A rare colliery badge on the lamp, or a non-standard design can boost the value.
At its peak in 1911, the colliery employed 2,700 mineworkers, though only 250 of these were indigenous to Warsop Vale.
Stainforth is just one of the communities that will be dealt a body blow if Hatfield colliery shuts.
They soon settled in Chell Heath and Matthew was employed at Chatterley Whitfield colliery as a face worker.
A third of the work force, 163 men, have also been told they could face the chop at the colliery in Rotherham.

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