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Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854
Name Parish From To Comments
Oak Wood Mirfield, Dewsbury 1882 1884
Oakenshaw Rhodes, Bradford 1854 1890 Not listed from 1861 to 1877.
Oakroyd Birkenshaw, Bradford 1877 1887
Oaks Stairfoot, Barnsley 1854 1896 Oaks, Old from 1897 to 1898.
Oaks Farm Darton, Barnsley 1919 1937 Abandoned in February 1920. Discontinued May 1936. Abandoned April 1937. Abandoned August 1945
Oaks Farm Opencast Barugh, Barnsley 1948 1961
Oaks, New Stairfoot, Barnsley 1897 1898
Oakwell Adwalton, Leeds 1872 1893 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Oakwell (a) Morley, Leeds 1855 1878
Occupation Mirfield, Dewsbury 1876 1877 Sinking in 1876.
Ogden Lane Nos.1 & 3 Brighouse 1904 1939 H. Mellors. 43 years. Closed 1939. Working plans suggest mine started 1904. Listing begins 1909, continues to 1946, but working was discontinued in December 1939. Not more than 25 men employed. Plan located only for earliest period.
Old Burtersett Hawes 1907 1916 Reopened Aug. 1907
Old Flockton Emroyd, Wakefield 1886 1894
Old Gawber Barnsley 1856 1863
Old Hall Roberttown, Liversedge 1874 1896 Sinking from 1874 to 1883.
Old Hall Liversedge, Dewsbury 1904 1912 Abandoned 1911.
Old Holmfield Pit Boothtown, Halifax 1947 1948
Old Mill Pit Barnsley 1855 1883
Old Oaks Barnsley 1838 1899 Old Oaks - first sunk 1838 - site later occupied by Barnsley Main. Explosion - 12 & 13th December 1866 killed 334 plus 27 rescue workers. A Pumping Station from 1904 to 1918.
Old Oaks Barnsley 1901 1918
Old Roundwood Ossett, Wakefield 1853 1966 Called Roundwood Colliery before 1901 and thereafter called Old Roundwood. Sunk in 1853 and closed in April 1966.
Old Silkstone Dodworth, Barnsley 1855 1899 Also see Dodworth. Sunk to Silkstone prior to 1862 and to Whinmoor in 1927.
Old Silkstone Main Worsbro’ Park, Barnsley 1855 1884
Old Sovereign Dodworth, Barnsley 1965 1969
Old Tarn Saddleworth, Oldham 1873 1873
Old Town Barnsley 1873 1876
Oldfieldnook Cleckheaton 1861 1863
Olive Branch Mexborough, Rotherham 1855 1860
Orchard Handsworth, Sheffield 1927 1932 Abandoned April 1932
Orchard Lane Beighton, Sheffield 1988 1988 Pumping Station
Orchard's Head Pontefract 1901 1941 Includes Eccleshill Sand Mine in 1915 and 1916.
Orgreave Treeton 1855 1981 Sunk to Barnsley in 1851 and the Silkstone in 1889-90. Closed in October 1981.
Orgreave Opencast Treeton 1953 1955
Osmondthorpe, Railway Pit Osmondthorpe, Leeds 1854 1928 Abandoned September 1928.
Osset Common Wakefield 1855 1860
Ossett Ossett, Wakefield 1854 1880
Oughtibridge Oughtibridge, Sheffield 1861 1899
Ouslethwaite Worsborough, Barnsley 1923 1924
Outcrop Halifax 1918 1962 Mainly a Fireclay mine. Hard Bed, abandoned 01/07/1962, plan 15206.
Owlet Hall Drighlington, Leeds 1855 1872 On 1st edition O.S. 1/10560 sheet.
Ox Close Ossett, Wakefield 1873 1881 Sinking from 1873 to 1878.
Ox-Bow Leeds 1966 4 miles SE of Leeds - opencast
Oxlee Hepworth, Holmfirth 1879 1897
Ozzings Shelley, Huddersfield 1874 1881 Sinking from 1874 to 1878.


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