Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin is an area of great architectural and landscape diversity.
Location	Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Includes	108 components
Criteria	Cultural: (ii), (iv), (vi)
Reference	1360
Inscription	2012 (36th Session)
Area	3,943 ha (9,740 acres)
Buffer zone	18,804 ha (46,470 acres)
Coordinates	50°27′45″N 3°32′46″E
Location of Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin in France

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin is an area of France that has been added to the 2012 UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. This area has been shaped after three centuries of coal extraction from 18th century to 20th century and illustrates a significant period in the history of industrialisation in Europe.

Nord-Pas de Calais mining basin location on French coal basins map.

Components

The 108 components of the World Heritage area include mining pits, lift infrastructure (headgears...), slag heaps, coal transport infrastructure, railway stations, workers’ estates and mining villages including social habitat, schools, religious buildings, health and community facilities, company premises, owners and managers’ houses, town halls.

Gallery

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  Fosse De Sessevalle in the 1930s.
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  Fosse #1 - 1 bis - 1 ter of Liévin colliery, ca. 1910.
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  Fosse #2 of Marles colliery.
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  Miners housing, or corons, Cité De Sessevalle.
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  Slag heap #93, called "21 Nord de Courrières".