Selby coalfield (also known as the Selby complex, or Selby 'superpit') was a large-scale deep underground mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire...

of Selby as a market town has declined in recent decades and its short-lived prominence as the centre of the Selby Coalfield has also waned. Selby is...

the coalfield stretches beyond the Wakefield district and other parts of West Yorkshire as far as Keighley and Kellingley Colliery and the Selby Coalfield...

his maiden speech on 7 July 1997. He led the campaign to save the Selby Coalfield in 2002. In 1999, he called for a memorial to the heroism of women...

closed on agreement that the workforce could transfer to the nearby Selby coalfield, so the area had several residents who commuted to work as miners as...

discovered Selby Coalfield. The line opened in 1983, running roughly northwest from a junction on the ECML near Temple Hirst, south of Selby, to a junction...

with the NUM on the basis that the workers could transfer to the new Selby Coalfield. The village is a highly sought after area for a Wakefield home. The...

in the Wakefield area, many of the miners took transfers to the new Selby Coalfield on closure. A full history was written in the same year by the pit's...

published by the Centre for Policy Studies. 29 October – Opening of Selby Coalfield. 12 November – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son...

coal was mined from beneath the village as Riccall Mine, part of the Selby Coalfield. According to the 2011 census the parish had a total population of...