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Former coal mine in South Yorkshire, England

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Fence Colliery was a small colliery sunk at the lower end of the village of Fence, South Yorkshire, England alongside the main Sheffield to Worksop road in the 1840s, shortly before the opening of the North Midland Railway through the Rother Valley.

History

The original coal pit at Fence, a small village within Rotherham Rural District alongside the main Sheffield to Worksop road. started operations in the 1840s.

In 1862 the Fence Colliery Company was formed to purchase the colliery, this leading to a period of development of the colliery and the building of houses for its workers. These were built along Falconer Lane, on the opposite side of the main road to the colliery, and are still in use. In late 1864, an explosion caused by the ignition of firedamp killed one worker and injured several others.

Closure and after life

Fence colliery closed as a coal producing unit in 1904, coal from its reserves being brought to the surface at Orgreave, but it was retained as a pumping station until 1957. Nationalisation came in 1947 and in the 1950s the site became home to the National Coal Boards divisional workshops, finally closing in the 1990s. After a short period of inactivity the site was redeveloped as Ley's Cast Iron Foundry, being relocated from Dronfield.

References

"Explosion of firedamp". The Times. No. 25045. 2 December 1864. p. 9. ISSN 0140-0460.
"Treeton Colliery". nmrs.org.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2024.

v t e Coal mining in Yorkshire
Coal mines in North Yorkshire	Selby complex (Gascoigne Wood, North Selby, Riccall, Stillingfleet, Whitemoor Wistow) Tan Hill
Coal mines in South Yorkshire	Aldwarke Askern Barnburgh Barrow Bentley Brodsworth Brookhouse Bullcroft Birley Cortonwood Dalton Dinnington Elsecar Fence Harry Crofts Hatfield Hickleton High Hazels Huskar Kilnhurst Kiveton Park Maltby Manvers Markham Main New Stubbin North Staveley Nunnery Orgreave Rossington Rother Vale Rotherham Roundwood Silverwood Smithies Thorne 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

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