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Bersham Colliery: No 2 Winding Gear is a post-medieval and modern industrial monument located in Wales, protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument. The structure represents the technological heritage of coal extraction during the industrial era, when mechanical winding equipment became essential to colliery operations. Positioned above geology of the Warwickshire Group—Early Permian siltstone and sandstone with subordinate mudstone—the site exploited mineral-rich strata that supported significant coal mining activity.
The winding gear itself embodies the mechanical innovation required for deep shaft mining, where it functioned to raise and lower men, coal and equipment. Such installations were characteristic features of Welsh collieries, which expanded substantially from the eighteenth century onwards. The survival of this structure provides physical evidence of industrial processes and engineering practices that transformed the Welsh landscape.
Scheduled under Cadw reference DE199, this monument is recognised as a representative and well-preserved example of colliery infrastructure. Its retention alongside the geological foundation it exploited offers insight into the relationship between resource geology and industrial development in Wales during the post-medieval period and beyond.
Bersham Colliery: No 2 Winding Gear is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE199. View the official record →
Bersham Colliery: No 2 Winding Gear is a post-medieval and modern industrial monument located in Wales, protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument.
Bersham Colliery: No 2 Winding Gear dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a colliery. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Bersham Colliery: No 2 Winding Gear is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is DE199.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wynnstay Colliery Walker Fan House (5.3 km), Wynnstay Colliery Winding Engine House (5.3 km), Offa's Dyke: Section N of Home Farm (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Bersham Colliery: No 2 Winding Gear's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bersham Colliery: No 2 Winding Gear stands on Warwickshire Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Permian. The rock here is siltstone and sandstone with subordinate mudstone.