Brodsworth Colliery

{{Short description|Former coal mine in South Yorkshire, England}} {{Use British English|date=December 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} [[File:Brodsworth Colliery 1967.png|thumb|right|Brodsworth Colliery around 1967]] [[File:Brodsworth Community Woodland - geograph.org.uk - 507780.jpg|thumb|Woodland on the site of the former colliery]] [[File:Brodsworth community woodland - geograph.org.uk - 1630505.jpg|thumb|Top of the spoil tip]] '''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]].{{sfn|Hill|2001|p=190|ps=}}

The colliery exploited the [[Coal Seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield|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.{{sfn|Hill|2001|p=195|ps=}} After a third shaft was sunk in 1923,{{sfn|Hill|2001|p=191|ps=}} Brodsworth, the largest colliery in Yorkshire, had the highest output of a three-shaft colliery in Britain.{{sfn|Hill|2001|p=190|ps=}}

The colliery and five others were merged into Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries<ref>{{citation |title=Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Ltd. |url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/d1001.htm|publisher=Durham Mining Museum |accessdate=25 June 2011}}</ref> in 1937 and the [[National Coal Board]] in 1947.{{sfn|Hill|2001|p=192|ps=}} It closed in 1990.{{sfn|Hill|2001|p=195|ps=}}

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, South Yorkshire|Woodlands]], a [[model village]] for its workers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goodchild |first1=John |title=South Yorkshire collieries |date=2001 |publisher=Tempus |location=Stroud |isbn=0752421484 |page=126}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wright |first1=Greg |title=Plans have been submitted to build 159 homes on site of famous Yorkshire colliery |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/plans-have-been-submitted-to-build-159-homes-on-site-of-famous-yorkshire-colliery-1-10133972 |accessdate=3 December 2019 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=3 December 2019|url-access=limited}}</ref>

==See also== * [[List of collieries in Yorkshire 1984-present with dates of closure]]

== References == '''Notes''' {{Reflist}} '''Bibliography''' {{refbegin}} *{{citation |last=Hill |first=Alan |title=The South Yorkshire Coalfield A history and Development |publisher=Tempus Publishing |year=2001|isbn=0-7524-1747-9}} {{refend}}

==External links== *[https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/doncaster/brodsworth/ Brodsworth Colliery on nmrs.org.uk]

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