Robin Hood Colliery (Robin Hood, Wakefield) (1)

Locality
Coordinate	53.7425, -1.514
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	Robin Hood, Wakefield
Type	Establishment
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1854

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Robin Hood Colliery.

Looking south from Sharp Lane in Robin Hood, Wakefield. I believe part of Robin Hood Colliery's surface facilities were once located in this field.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-31. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

The Robin Hood Colliery or Collieries had operations in several places in the village of Robin Hood. The facilities at the location indicated on the Google Map included an engine house, cf. the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1854, which is the first record of this place-name. The 1905 map only indicates an "Air Shaft" at the location. In 1938 a small residential area named Sherwood Green was under construction at this site.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 233 (1854; rev. 1848-51)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1894; rev. 1892)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE 1908; rev. 1905)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1908; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1931; rev. 1931-32) (sic)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1947; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1949; rev. 1948).

Also see

• Robin Hood (Wakefield) place-name cluster
• Wakefield place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's Mine.

Notes

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names