# Roundwood Colliery > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Roundwood_Colliery > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Roundwood_Colliery.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundwood_Colliery > Source revision: 1316677717 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Former coal mine in South Yorkshire, England This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Roundwood Colliery" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Not to be confused with [Old Roundwood Colliery](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_Roundwood_Colliery&action=edit&redlink=1), at Ossett near Wakefield. 1915 map of coal mines in South Yorkshire. Roundwood colliery is No. 9 in the east. **Roundwood Colliery** was a coal mine situated in the [Don Valley](/source/Lower_Don_Valley), about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham), [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire), England on the borders of Rotherham and [Rawmarsh](/source/Rawmarsh). ## History Coal gathering in the Aldwarke area, lands of the old manor which stretch across the Don Valley from [Parkgate](/source/Parkgate%2C_Rotherham) to [Thrybergh](/source/Thrybergh), goes back to the 17th century with documents relating to tenants' rights of way over the grounds and the river Dunne (Don) at Aldwarke ford, on both sides of river; and to any person fetching coals from pits. Earlier records still refer to charkcole (charcoal) to be cut in Rounde woodde near Aldwarke Manor house. It is from Rounde woodde that this colliery takes its name. ## Deep Mining The Deep Mine, named Roundwood, was set a short distance north of [Aldwarke Main Colliery](/source/Aldwarke_Main_Colliery) between the main line of the [Midland Railway](/source/Midland_Railway), north of [Parkgate and Rawmarsh](/source/Parkgate_and_Rawmarsh_railway_station) and the [Mexborough](/source/Mexborough) to Sheffield line of the [Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway](/source/Manchester%2C_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway), north of [Parkgate and Aldwarke](/source/Parkgate_and_Aldwarke_railway_station). It was established in the early 1860s and had connections to both railways and to staithes alongside the River Don. In 1880 the colliery was listed as being owned by Cooper, Sellars and Company, becoming The Roundwood Colliery Company by 1896. This company was purchased by [John Brown and Company](/source/John_Brown_and_Company) becoming the [Dalton Main Colliery Company](/source/Dalton_Main_Collieries_Ltd.) in 1899, and who undertook the sinking of [Silverwood Colliery](/source/Silverwood_Colliery).[1] These collieries being joined by a railway built by the owners and known as [John Brown's Private Railway](/source/John_Brown's_Private_Railway) and over which a [Paddy Mail](/source/Paddy_Mail) service operated until the 1930s when it was discontinued in favour of "pit buses" which were operated by private companies and, later Rotherham Corporation. From 1908 the collieries were joined underground.[2] This underground joining of the collieries meant that the drawing of coal could be concentrated at Silverwood and the Roundwood shafts used for materials and men. In 1947 the colliery passed to the [National Coal Board](/source/National_Coal_Board) and was closed in the early 1960s. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Barnett, A. L. (1984). *The railways of the South Yorkshire coalfield from 1880*. Bampton: Railway Coprrespondence and Travel Society. p. 57. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-901115-58-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901115-58-4). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Barnett, A. L. (1984). *The railways of the South Yorkshire coalfield from 1880*. Bampton: Railway Coprrespondence and Travel Society. p. 60. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-901115-58-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901115-58-4). 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°27′21″N 1°19′29″W / 53.45583°N 1.32472°W / 53.45583; -1.32472](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Roundwood_Colliery¶ms=53_27_21_N_1_19_29_W_region:GB_type:landmark_source:wikimapia) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Roundwood Colliery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundwood_Colliery) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundwood_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.