# High Hazels Colliery > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/High_Hazels_Colliery > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/High_Hazels_Colliery.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Hazels_Colliery > Source revision: 981868466 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Former coal mine in South Yorkshire, England **High Hazels Colliery** was a coal mine situated between the parish of [Catcliffe](/source/Catcliffe), near [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham), and the parish of [Handsworth](/source/Handsworth%2C_South_Yorkshire), near [Sheffield](/source/Sheffield). It was adjacent to the main line of the [Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway](/source/Manchester%2C_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway) between the stations of [Darnall](/source/Darnall_railway_station) and [Woodhouse](/source/Woodhouse_railway_station). The original colliery was owned by Thomas Coupland Hounsfield, a merchant who, until 1900, lived in Paris. In that year he leased the colliery to the Waverley Coal Company, who were already working [Nunnery Colliery](/source/Nunnery_Colliery) nearer to the city centre. The pit was small, with, in 1896, only 123 workers. High Hazels No.3 pit was the easternmost colliery of the Waverley group and situated slightly to the east of the other shafts. In 1947, on nationalisation, the colliery became part of the [National Coal Board](/source/National_Coal_Board). The site was also home to coke ovens and by-products plant which was served by a 28" gauge railway on which operated 3 locomotives: - The first two locomotives were products of [Yorkshire Engine Company](/source/Yorkshire_Engine_Company) and were a four-coupled side tank design, Works No's. 546, built in 1897 and 898, built in 1906. - The third locomotive was built by [Black, Hawthorn & Company](/source/Black%2C_Hawthorn_%26_Company), a four-coupled saddle tank locomotive, Works No. 591, built in 1901. The locomotives and system were cut up when the coke ovens closed. - Standard gauge locomotives are listed with others owned by the Waverley Coal Company and are listed on the Nunnery Colliery entry. ## References *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 [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0141-4488](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0141-4488) (This article also uses unpublished material researched for "East of Sheffield" from various sources including members of Woodhouse Local History Group, members of the Great Central Railway Society and others). 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°23′06″N 1°23′12″W / 53.3849°N 1.3866°W / 53.3849; -1.3866](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=High_Hazels_Colliery¶ms=53.3849_N_1.3866_W_region:GB_type:landmark) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [High Hazels Colliery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Hazels_Colliery) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Hazels_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.