Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Coal

The Victoria County History records that coal was being mined in Walsall from at least the 14th century and there is documentary evidence of a farmer of Walsall manor renting coal-mines. Ironstone mining is also recoded from a similar time.

It was though from 1750 through to 1870 that the South Staffordshire coalfield underwent rapid exploitation.

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