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Birkenshaw East Ardsley Gomersal Greatfield Gregory Spring Howroyd Lofthouse Manor Middleton Broom Newmarket Silkstone Norwood Green Old Roundwood Parkhill Rothwell Rothwell Beeston Shaw Cross Thornhill Toftshaw Moor Walton Waterloo

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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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