Iron mine, Wombwell, Barnsley, S Yorkshire

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Playoutside
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12 years ago

Can any one confirm there was an Iron mine near Wombwell Golf course? And any Information relating to it would be great
Thank you.

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AR
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12 years ago

I couldn't say for certain, but there has been a lot of ironstone mining in the past around the outcrop of the coal measures in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, so it's quite likely there was an ironstone mine there.

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busa12311
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12 years ago

Hi not sure what mine it was but if you walk down to the bottom of the course im sure theres a big concrete slab with a plaque on it. 😉

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LeeW
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12 years ago

That will be Lundhill Colliery and might be one of the capped shafts with its marker.
Although the colliery may have mined other stuff other than coal, which depending on what seams, may include some ironstone. But the ironstone mines tend to be further west towards Tankersley, but that's where it outcrops to surface.

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Grumpytramp
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12 years ago

I am pretty sure that the pit you are referring to is Lundhill Colliery which was sunk in 1853 to the Barnsley Bed and was finally abandoned in September 1895.

To the best of my knowledge the pit worked the Barnsley, Kents Thick, Swallow Wood (Melton Field), Wathwood and Abdy (Winter) coal seams. It is possible that they raised some Ironstone from roof of the Swallow Wood seam but it was pretty much exclusively a coal producing mine

It was also the scene of 1857 explosion that resulted in the loss of 189 men and boys.

http://www.moorebooks.co.uk/British-Mining-Memoirs-2012-N0-93.html ]

Playoutside
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12 years ago

Thanks for the info People.
I know about the 3 capped Pit shafts Near the golf course But the area I'm thinking of is closer. 20m or so from the fence of the golf course. There are Iron oxide stains where a stream must rise and sink with in 10 M.

Here is the Google map link.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=wombwell&hl=en&ll=53.512199,-1.398818&spn=0.00039,0.000923&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=6.491397,15.117188&hnear=Wombwell,+South+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=20

Roger L
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12 years ago

Hi
You must also check to see if the Cistercian Monks carried out ironstone mining in the area in there early years.
We have them from Fountains, Jervaux, Byland and Roche Abbey round the Mining Museum area. There is Monk Bretton Priory and Rockley Abbey not too far away either.

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Grumpytramp
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12 years ago

If you look carefully in old-maps.co.uk at the 1892 1:2500 map you can pick out that location probably lies very close to one of the colliery shafts.

I am pretty sure that the orange staining, is not a product of ironstone mining, but ochre forming where minewater draining out, presumably from below one of the shaft caps or ground water draining through buried spoil has come into contact with oxygen.

This is the result of Acid Mine Drainage; the coal authority have a good straightforward explanation of issues:

http://coal.decc.gov.uk/en/coal/cms/environment/ochre/ochre.aspx

http://coal.decc.gov.uk/en/coal/cms/environment/about_m_water/about_m_water.aspx

johnf46
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12 years ago

ithink the only mine near wombwell golf course was the famous lundhill colliery what explode