Selby coalfield (also known as the Selby complex, or Selby 'superpit') was a large-scale deep underground mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire...

of Selby as a market town has declined in recent decades and its short-lived prominence as the centre of the Selby Coalfield has also waned. Selby is...

the coalfield stretches beyond the Wakefield district and other parts of West Yorkshire as far as Keighley and Kellingley Colliery and the Selby Coalfield...

his maiden speech on 7 July 1997. He led the campaign to save the Selby Coalfield in 2002. In 1999, he called for a memorial to the heroism of women...

closed on agreement that the workforce could transfer to the nearby Selby coalfield, so the area had several residents who commuted to work as miners as...

with the NUM on the basis that the workers could transfer to the new Selby Coalfield. Seckar Woods nature reserve, located near the more affluent village...

in the Wakefield area, many of the miners took transfers to the new Selby Coalfield on closure. A full history was written in the same year by the pit's...

Colliery closed in 1981. Many of the miners took transfers to the new Selby Coalfield. A seven-sided stone obelisk listing the names of the seven miners...

marshalling yards in Cambridgeshire, England Whitemoor, a pit in the Selby Coalfield, England Harap Alb, a Romanian-language fairy tale, often translated...

published by the Centre for Policy Studies. 29 October – Opening of Selby Coalfield. 12 November – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son...

coal was mined from beneath the village as Riccall Mine, part of the Selby Coalfield. According to the 2011 census the parish had a total population of...

services across the UK and with the National Coal Board to develop Selby Coalfield. The company became part of Atkins in 1996. It subsequently expanded...

discovered Selby Coalfield. The line opened in 1983, running roughly northwest from a junction on the ECML near Temple Hirst, south of Selby, to a junction...

Cliffe Common, South Duffield, Lund, and Newhay. The site of the former Selby Coalfield Whitemoor mine in the north of the parish is now a business park. The...

district, 10 in the Barnsley district, 9 in the Doncaster district, 6 in the Selby district, 3 in the Leeds district and 2 in the Kirklees district. The Yorkshire...

in Cornwall and moved to Yorkshire when her father sought work at Selby Coalfield. For several years she helped care for her brother Matty. He had sustained...

include Acaster Selby, Naburn and Appleton Roebuck. Stillingfleet was once the site of UK Coal's Stillingfleet Mine, part of the Selby Coalfield, which closed...

The coal seams worked in the South Yorkshire Coalfield lie mainly in the middle coal measures within what is now formally referred to as the Pennine Coal...

colliery to the new Selby Coalfield, but only around half of the workforce (excluding those that chose redundancy) moved to the Selby Coalfield. The remaining...

was lessened by transfers to other pits and the opening up of the Selby Coalfield where working conditions and wages were relatively favourable.: 25–26 ...

Coal" on the condition that the workforce could transfer to the new Selby Coalfield. "BOTTOM BOAT, WAKEFIELD (WF3 4AY)". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 27...

coal mines in operation though mainly in the Cumbrian and Lancashire coalfields. The company had purchased land in 1872 next to a former mine, Worsbrough...

traffic originating from the Yorkshire collieries and in particular the Selby Coalfield. The Aire Valley power stations received much of the coal, with each...

Parkhill and Walton all closed. As the Wakefield pits closed, the Selby Coalfield was being opened, many colliers in Wakefield accepted offers to transfer...

transferring to the new Selby Coalfield. Whereas some mineworkers moved house closer to Selby, many commuted daily from Rothwell to Selby for years. After closure...

and many of the coal miners subsequently took transfers to the new Selby Coalfield and left the village. The site of the mine is now a golf course, now...

of the Selby Coalfield was brought to the surface. The Selby Diversion of the East Coast Main Line opened in 1983, passing under the Leeds-Selby Line between...

plant were closed in 1981. With rationalisation in the South Yorkshire coalfield, from 1950 to 1956, Manvers became the centre of coal output from the...

common in the 1970s, and new investments were made in sites such as the Selby Coalfield. In early 1984, the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher announced...

connection for the colliery Carolyn Baylies (1993), "10. The Yorkshire Coalfield after 1900 – opening up of the Doncaster Area", The History of the Yorkshire...