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plural coalfields
Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined. quotations examples
The amount of coal despatched in the Western Region is about 24,000,000 tons a year, nearly all from South Wales, though the Region includes the Forest of Dean, N. Somerset, and part of the N. Wales coalfields.
1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492