Brodsworth Colliery was a coal mine north west of Doncaster and west of the Great North Road. in South Yorkshire, England. Two shafts were sunk between October 1905 and 1907 in a joint venture by the Hickleton Main Colliery Company and the Staveley Coal and Iron Company.
The colliery exploited the coal seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield including the Barnsley seam which was reached at a depth of 595 yards and was up to 9 feet thick. After a third shaft was sunk in 1923, Brodsworth, the largest colliery in Yorkshire, had the highest output of a three-shaft colliery in Britain.
The colliery and five others were merged into Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries in 1937 and the National Coal Board in 1947. It closed in 1990.
The colliery was consistently amongst those that employed the most miners in Britain, employing around 2,800 workers throughout the 1980s.
The company built Woodlands, a model village for its workers. Since the colliery closed, its spoil tip has been restored and developed as a community woodland; owned by the Land Restoration Trust and controlled by the Forestry Commission. Some of the colliery site has been sufficiently remediated to allow houses to be built upon it.
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Notes
- ^ Hill 2001, p. 190
- ^ Hill 2001, p. 195
- Hill 2001, p. 191
- Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Ltd., Durham Mining Museum, retrieved 25 June 2011
- Hill 2001, p. 192
- Goodchild, John (2001). South Yorkshire collieries. Stroud: Tempus. p. 126. ISBN 0752421484.
- Wright, Greg (3 December 2019). "Plans have been submitted to build 159 homes on site of famous Yorkshire colliery". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
Bibliography
- Hill, Alan (2001), The South Yorkshire Coalfield A history and Development, Tempus Publishing, ISBN 0-7524-1747-9
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