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Aston Colliery was a small coal mine sunk on Aston Common, within Rotherham Rural District but six miles east of
Aston Common Industrial Estate now covers the area of the former colliery.
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...
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
The Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited was an industrial company based in Staveley, Derbyshire, Staveley, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield, north Derbyshire.
History
The company was registered in 1863, appearing in provincial sto ...
, based in North Derbyshire. It was later acquired by the Sheffield Coal Company.
History
A small coal mining operation commenced in the 1840s on Aston Common, south ofRotherham
Rotherham ( ) is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies at the confluence of the River Rother, South Yorkshire, River Rother, from which the town gets its name, and the River Don, Yorkshire, River Don. It is the largest settlement ...
and east of the city of Sheffield
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, between Aston
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(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 commuter town for Sheffield and Rotherham it had over 14,000 inhabitants by 1991).
An industrial tramway
Tramways are lightly laid industrial railways, often not intended to be permanent. Originally, rolling stock could be pushed by humans, pulled by animals (especially horses and mules), cable-hauled by a stationary engine, or pulled by smal ...
connected the mine with the railway line between Sheffield and Worksop.
Aston Common Industrial Estate now covers the area of the former colliery.
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