Asfordby Colliery

The Nottinghamshire coalfield has been traced across the boundary in Leicestershire and in the 1980s it was proposed to sink new ‘super’ mines in the Vale of Belvoir. A mix of economic and political pressure meant that only one, at Asfordby, was allowed in 1986. This was at the southern edge of the coalfield and had significant geological and mining problems. In 1989, a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on the British Coal Corporation noted “we have been puzzled by the history of the Asfordby new mine project” and concluded that it “has always been marginal in financial terms”.

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(thank you for the kind permission of the Northern Mine Research Society) This paragraph was taken from the Leicestershire Coal Mine introduction page.

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https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/leicestershire/

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