• The South Yorkshire Coalfield is so named from its position within Yorkshire. It covers most of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and a small part of North...
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  • The coal seams worked in the South Yorkshire Coalfield lie mainly in the middle coal measures within what is now formally referred to as the Pennine Coal...
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    South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the north,...
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  • Staffordshire Coalfield Cannock Chase Coalfield Warwickshire Coalfield Wyre Forest Coalfield Yorkshire Coalfield South Yorkshire Coalfield Ayrshire Coalfield Central...
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    coalfield (also known as the Selby complex, or Selby 'superpit') was a large-scale deep underground mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire,...
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  • the 1950s and 1960s. The colliery was on the South Yorkshire coalfield and was part of the striking Yorkshire region of the National Union of Mineworkers...
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    Huskar Pit (category Disasters in Yorkshire)
    Huskar Pit was a coal mine on the South Yorkshire Coalfield, sunk to work the Silkstone seam. It was located in Nabs Wood, outside the village of Silkstone...
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    Hatfield Colliery (category Hatfield, South Yorkshire)
    in the South Yorkshire Coalfield, mining the High Hazel coal seam. The colliery was around 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Hatfield, South Yorkshire, adjacent...
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    Manvers Main Colliery (category Coal mines in South Yorkshire)
    rationalisation in the South Yorkshire coalfield, from 1950 to 1956, Manvers became the centre of coal output from the collieries known as the South Manvers complex...
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    Lofthouse Colliery disaster (category Disasters in Yorkshire)
    Colliery closed in 1981. Many of the miners took transfers to the new Selby Coalfield. A seven-sided stone obelisk listing the names of the seven miners was...
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