North Staveley Colliery

North Staveley Colliery

Aston Colliery was a small coal mine sunk on Aston Common, within Rotherham Rural District but six miles east of Sheffield in the 1840s. In 1864 its workings were taken over and developed by the North Staveley Colliery Company, part of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, based in North Derbyshire.

History

A small coal mining operation commenced in the 1840s on Aston Common, south of Rotherham and east of the city of Sheffield, between Aston (in South Yorkshire) and Beighton (then in Derbyshire but now part of South Yorkshire).

In 1864 the workings of the Aston colliery were taken over and developed by the North Staveley Colliery Company, who not only extended the coal workings but built housing, a chapel and reading room for its workers. This increased the population of the parish of Aston by 672 between 1861 and 1871, an increase of over 70% (As a Sheffield and Rotherham commuter town the 1991 total was over 14,000).

References

  • "East of Sheffield" by R. Milnes, "Forward", the journal of the Great Central Railway Society, No.16, March 1978 (ISSN-0144-4488) and includes unpublished research material gathered for this article from various local sources including Alan Rowles of the Wales and Kiveton Local History Group.
  • National census details, 1861, 1871 and 1991.

Coordinates: 53°21′25″N 1°18′44″W / 53.35694°N 1.31222°W / 53.35694; -1.31222


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