# Brookhouse Colliery > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Brookhouse_Colliery > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Brookhouse_Colliery.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookhouse_Colliery > Source revision: 1344469528 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Former coal mine in South Yorkshire Brookhouse Colliery in 1977 **Brookhouse Colliery** was a coal mine within the [Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Rotherham), [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire), England. It was operational between 1929 and 1985. ## History To develop coal seams in the area, the [Sheffield Coal Company](/source/Sheffield_Coal_Company) opened a new colliery between Swallownest and Beighton, at that time on the borders of Rotherham Rural District and [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire) but now just within the borough of [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham_(borough)). The company, which became part of the [United Steel Companies](/source/United_Steel_Companies) in 1937, already owned other collieries in the area, particularly the [Birley Collieries](/source/Birley_Collieries) and that at Aston Common, known as [North Staveley Colliery](/source/North_Staveley_Colliery). Brookhouse was not opened until 1929 and linked with its neighbours underground. The site also included coke ovens and by-products plants supplying metallurgical coke to the iron and steel industry, particularly those in [Scunthorpe](/source/Scunthorpe). The coking plant ceased production in 1981, several years before the colliery itself closed.[1] The colliery passed to the National Coal Board on nationalisation in 1947 and was closed on 26 October 1985.[1] After closure the site became part of a long-held plan by Rotherham Borough Council, Sheffield City Council and North East Derbyshire District Council to create the northern extension to the [Rother Valley Country Park](/source/Rother_Valley_Country_Park). The first part of the plan, the southern part of which was commenced in 1976, was to extract coal by opencasting from the area before commencement of landscaping. Further opencast extraction after closure recovered significant additional coal from the site before restoration. ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto_1-1) ["Sheffield Coalfield"](https://nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/sheffield/). *Northern Mine Research Society*. Retrieved 14 March 2026. - *East of Sheffield* by Roger Milnes. "Forward" - The journal of the Great Central Railway Society, No.16, July 1984. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0141-4488](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0141-4488) (This article also uses unpublished material researched for "East of Sheffield" from various sources including members of the Kiveton and Wales Local History Group). - Official Company Handbook of the United Steel Companies. v t e Coal mining in Yorkshire Coal mines in North Yorkshire Selby complex2 (Gascoigne Wood, North Selby, Riccall, Stillingfleet, Whitemoor Wistow) Tan Hill Coal mines in South Yorkshire1 Aldwarke1 Askern Barnburgh Barrow Bentley Brodsworth Brookhouse Bullcroft1 Birley Cortonwood Dalton Dinnington Elsecar Fence Harry Crofts1 Hatfield Hickleton High Hazels Huskar Kilnhurst Kiveton Park Maltby Manvers Markham Main New Stubbin North Staveley Nunnery1 Orgreave Rossington Rother Vale Rotherham1 Roundwood1 Silverwood Smithies Thorne1 Thurcroft Tinsley Park Treeton Waleswood Warren House Warren Vale Wath Wharncliffe Woodmoor Yorkshire Main Coal mines in West Yorkshire Caphouse Flockton Frickley Garforth Collieries (Isabella Pit, Sisters Pit, Trench Pit) Kellingley Killingbeck Middleton Shuttle Eye Prince of Wales Upton Waterloo Main Wheldale Woolley Incidents Allerton Bywater Colliery Explosion Cadeby Main pit disaster Lofthouse Colliery disaster Lundhill Colliery explosion Oaks explosion Peckfield Colliery disaster Coalfields and seams Coal seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield Ingleton Coalfield South Yorkshire Coalfield Industrial relations UK miners' strike (1969) UK miners' strike (1972) UK miners' strike (1984–85) Battle of Orgreave South Yorkshire Miners' Association West Yorkshire Miners' Association Yorkshire Miners' Association Other articles Geology of Yorkshire List of collieries in Yorkshire (1984–2015) Monckton Coke Works National Coal Mining Museum for England British MPs sponsored by mining unions Notes 1 Pre 1974, most coal mines in South Yorkshire were actually in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Those annotated with a number 1, were closed before 1974. 2 The Selby Coalfield straddled the border of North and West Yorkshire [53°21′13″N 1°19′10″W / 53.35361°N 1.31944°W / 53.35361; -1.31944](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Brookhouse_Colliery¶ms=53_21_13_N_1_19_10_W_type:landmark_region:GB) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Brookhouse Colliery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookhouse_Colliery) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookhouse_Colliery?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.