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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Somerset coalfield, William Smith, Kennet and Avon Canal, Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Somerset Coal Canal, Timsbury, Somerset, Peasedown St John, Ham Hill, Somerset, Stanton Drew, Newton St Loe, Bath Stone, Paulton, High Littleton, Pensford, Bishop Sutton, Clutton, Somerset, Camerton, Somerset, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Holcombe, Somerset, Mells, Somerset, Farrington Gurney, Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, Kilmersdon, Farmborough, Coleford, Somerset, Dunkerton, Somerset, Writhlington, Hunstrete, Norton Radstock, Cam Brook, Wellow Brook, Hamstone, Quarries of the Mendip Hills, Emborough Quarries, Batts Combe quarry, Hadspen Quarry, Cloford Quarry, Fairy Cave Quarry, Stancombe Quarry, Whatley Quarry, Thurlbear Wood and Quarrylands, Doulting Stone Quarry, Radstock Museum, Colemans Quarry, Moon's Hill Quarry, Windsor Hill Quarry, Cook's Wood Quarry, Halecombe, Holwell Quarries, Torr Works, Snowdon Hill Quarry, Viaduct Quarry, Hobbs Quarry, Gurney Slade quarry, Dulcote Quarry, Callow Rock quarry, Cloud Quarry. Excerpt: Connection Timeout The Somerset Coalfield included pits in North Somerset, England, area where coal was mined from the 15th century until 1973. It is part of a wider coalfield which covered northern Somerset and southern Gloucestershire in England. It stretched from Cromhall in the north to the Mendip Hills in the south, and from Bath in the east to Nailsea in the west, a total area of about 240 square miles (622 km). Most of the pits in the Somerset Coalfield were concentrated along the Cam Brook, Wellow Brook and Nettlebridge Valleys and in the areas around Radstock and Farrington Gurney. The pits were often grouped geographically with clusters of pits which were close together working the same coal seams and often under the same ownership. Many also shared the same t...
