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Woolley Colliery
Coal mine in South Yorkshire, England

Woolley Colliery

Woolley Colliery was a coal mine sunk near Darton in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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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.

How locals move

Getting around Woolley Colliery the local way

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From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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