# Brodsworth Colliery

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Former coal mine in South Yorkshire, England

Brodsworth Colliery around 1967

Woodland on the site of the former colliery

Top of the spoil tip

**Brodsworth Colliery** was a [coal mine](/source/Coal_mine) north west of [Doncaster](/source/Doncaster) and west of the Great North Road. in [South Yorkshire](/source/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](/source/Staveley_Coal_and_Iron_Company).[1]

The colliery exploited the [coal seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield](/source/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.[2] After a third shaft was sunk in 1923,[3] Brodsworth, the largest colliery in Yorkshire, had the highest output of a three-shaft colliery in Britain.[1]

The colliery and five others were merged into Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries[4] in 1937 and the [National Coal Board](/source/National_Coal_Board) in 1947.[5] It closed in 1990.[2]

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](/source/Woodlands%2C_South_Yorkshire), a [model village](/source/Model_village) for its workers.[6] Since the colliery closed, its [spoil tip](/source/Spoil_tip) has been restored and developed as a community woodland; owned by the Land Restoration Trust and controlled by the [Forestry Commission](/source/Forestry_Commission). Some of the colliery site has been sufficiently remediated to allow houses to be built upon it.[7]

## See also

- [List of collieries in Yorkshire 1984-present with dates of closure](/source/List_of_collieries_in_Yorkshire_1984-present_with_dates_of_closure)

## References

**Notes**

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHill2001190_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHill2001190_1-1) [Hill 2001](#CITEREFHill2001), p. 190

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHill2001195_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHill2001195_2-1) [Hill 2001](#CITEREFHill2001), p. 195

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHill2001191_3-0)** [Hill 2001](#CITEREFHill2001), p. 191

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [*Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Ltd.*](http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/d1001.htm), Durham Mining Museum, retrieved 25 June 2011

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHill2001192_5-0)** [Hill 2001](#CITEREFHill2001), p. 192

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Goodchild, John (2001). *South Yorkshire collieries*. Stroud: Tempus. p. 126. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0752421484](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0752421484).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Wright, Greg (3 December 2019). ["Plans have been submitted to build 159 homes on site of famous Yorkshire colliery"](https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/plans-have-been-submitted-to-build-159-homes-on-site-of-famous-yorkshire-colliery-1-10133972). *The Yorkshire Post*. Retrieved 3 December 2019.

**Bibliography**

- Hill, Alan (2001), *The South Yorkshire Coalfield A history and Development*, Tempus Publishing, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7524-1747-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7524-1747-9)

## External links

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

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