skiprat
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12 years ago
The location of the current AditNow entry for Silkstone Main corresponds to Hall Royd Colliery which has its own entry.

Is this a duplicate entry or simply a case of wrong location?
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LeeW
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12 years ago
Silkstone Main and Hall Royd are seperate mines, prob very close to each other. The 100m grid-ref is correct for both entries.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmhrc/lom69yor.htm 

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Yorkshireman
12 years ago
Silkstone Main Colliery appears to be a generic name that covers a number of pits in the area (OS Map 1855) and quite a network of mineral railways connecting them that stretches from Top Pit Wood in the west to the railway at Worsborough Dale.

Along the mineral railway, I can roughly make out Stoney Royd, Ratten Row, Top Pit and Low Pit, coke ovens, lots of unnamed shafts and a couple of Engine Houses on the '55 map - all of which were probably part of the Silkstone Main catchment area. Pilley Hills coal and ironstone is probably part of the group, too.

It is always difficult to pin down an actual shaft location and a corresponding name. The names changed from time to time with change of ownership, new shafts, the name the locals gave it. I have some mines that have had at least five names at different times and sometimes dozens of shafts spread over a wide area that all belong to one colliery group - e.g. Reevy Hall and Low Moor near Bradford, or the Hunsworth and Brierly Pits complex.

There are literally dozens of pits named after kings, queens, dukes and princes, pubs (Three Nuns, Duke of York), streets, farms, halls, hills and houses, as well as after the mine owner or the owner of the land it was on and many other roots.

It's sometimes a painstaking business finding out which is which - and I haven't located Hall Royd anywhere else than on AN yet, either - but I'm still looking.
skiprat
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12 years ago
Hall Royd is at SE 294 046 just outside Silkstone Common and shown on the 1893 OS on Old Maps.

I'm just creating an entry for Silkstone Main (Stainborough) which is the strung out colliery you (and I) are describing for Silkstone Main. An Archive Album extract from my 1850 OS map will accompany.
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LeeW
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12 years ago
Hall Royd appears in the list of mines (a few different years) aswell as appearing on the old OS Maps. Silkstone Main appears on the 1869 and 1880 (as Old Silkstone Main)

Was Silkstone Main also the name of a colliery company?
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Yorkshireman
12 years ago
Once again, it all depends on which Silkstone Main you mean!

I have a Silkstone Main (Black Horse Shaft - another pub name), on Silkstone Common to the SW of Hall Royd (I did have it after all!) and a Silkstone Main (a) to the SE of Hood Green on the Silkstone Main Mineral Railway (431956 401860) that also appears to be Stoney Royd Pit.
skiprat
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12 years ago
In this area we clearly have mines with the same name in different locations, and mines with different names in the same locations which makes life confusing.

For any new mines that I upload, I will add a location/parish in brackets to try to help identify which one I am specifying.
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