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Leeds & Bradford Coalfields
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Collieries after Nationalisation in 1947
Colliery
Location
Opened
Closed
Birkenshaw
Birkenshaw
1910
(1954)
Merged with Gomersal
East Ardsley
East Ardsley
1876
January
1968
Gomersal
Gomersal
1913
June
1973
Greatfield
Ossett
1913
September
1954
Gregory Spring
Upper Hopton
1921
(August)
(1962)
Merged with Shuttle Eye
Howroyd
Whitley Lower
1948
December
1962
Lofthouse
Outwood
1873
July
1981
Manor
Wakefield
1861
December
1981
Middleton Broom
Middleton
1888
May
1968
Newmarket Silkstone
Stanley
1835
September
1983
Norwood Green
Norwood Green
1929
April
1959
Old Roundwood
Ossett
1853
April
1966
Park Hill
Stanley
1883
December
1982
Rothwell
Rothwell
1950
December
1983
Rothwell Haigh, Beeston Pit
Rothwell
1870
1947
Shaw Cross
Dewsbury
1876
August
1968
Thornhill
Thornhill
1948
April
1972
Toftshaw Moor
East Bierley
1913
August
1950
Walton
Walton
1873
December
1979
Waterloo
Leeds
1854
September
1968
Dates in brackets indicate the date that the colliery merged with another
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