Woolley Colliery
Woolley Colliery was a coal mine sunk near Darton in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Woolley Colliery was a coal mine sunk near Darton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Coal mines in the area were worked as early as 1850, and in the 1860s two rows of terrace cottages were built to accommodate miners. The pit village, also named Woolley Colliery, is now in the Darton East ward of Barnsley Borough Council in South Yorkshire. The adjacent colliery site was reclaimed and is now occupied by a residential housing development named Woolley Grange which is in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Woolley Colliery
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England. It shows work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
3.2 km · sculpture park in West Bretton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Bretton Hall
Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds from 2001 to 2007.
3.2 km · Georgian country house in West Yorkshire, England, now part of Yorkshire Sculpture Park · Wikipedia - 03Church In Bretton Park
St Bartholomew's Chapel is a former estate church in the grounds of Bretton Hall, in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The redundant Grade II* listed chapel has been restored as gallery space for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
2.8 km · church building in West Bretton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Church of All Saints
The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Darton in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds.
1.1 km · Anglican church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Woolley Hall
Woolley Hall is a country house in Woolley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.6 km · house in Woolley, Wakefield, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Woolley Colliery
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 31 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · East Midlands (EMA), 86 km
- Stations
- Darton railway station, 800 m · Staincross and Mapplewell railway station, 3.4 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Woolley Colliery48 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £5–7
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Woolley Colliery76 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
- Liverpool → Woolley Colliery98 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Woolley Colliery
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Woolley Colliery. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.
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Woolley Colliery is 22 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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