Staveley Coal and Iron Company

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The Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited was an industrial company based in Staveley, near Chesterfield, North Derbyshire. It exploited local ironstone quarried from land owned by the Duke of Devonshire on the outskirts of the village. It developed into coal mining, owning several collieries and also into chemical production, first from those available from coal tar distillation, later to cover a wide and diverse range. Part of the plant at staveley was a sulphuric acid manufacturing unit, this was used in the steel making proccess.

The company was absorbed into British Steel in the 1970s, but by the 1980 they sold sections of the site off, as they divested themselves of non core activities.

Most of the Site of its former works at Staveley has been shut down and cleared in 2007.